Survive Style 5+

Survive Style 5+
File:Survive style 5.jpg Japanese DVD cover
Directed by	Gen Sekiguchi
Written by	Taku Tada
Produced by	Ryoichi Fukuyama Hiroyuki Taniguchi
Starring	Tadanobu Asano Shihori Kanjiya Kyōko Koizumi Jai West Sonny Chiba Vinnie Jones
Cinematography	Makoto Shiguma
Edited by	Gen Sekiguchi Taku Tada
Music by	James Shimoji
Release date	2004
Running time	120 min.
Country	Japan
Languages	Japanese English

Survive Style 5+ is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Gen Sekiguchi. It stars Tadanobu Asano, Kyōko Koizumi, Reika Hashimoto, Jai West, Sonny Chiba and Vinnie Jones.

Synopsis

The film follows five simultaneous, loosely linked plot lines, that intertwine and scramble together. A man (Tadanobu Asano) keeps killing his wife (Reika Hashimoto) and burying her in the woods only to find her alive, furious, and waiting for him when he returns home. A suburban family's life is disrupted when the father (Ittoku Kishibe) is permanently hypnotized into believing he is a bird and tries to learn how to fly. A trio of aimless youth pass time by burgling houses. A murderous advertising executive (Kyōko Koizumi) tries to imagine ideas for commercials. The stories clash together through the intervention of a thuggish hitman (Vinnie Jones) and his translator (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa).

Cast

• Tadanobu Asano - A man
• Reika Hashimoto - Mimi - Ishigaki's wife
• Kyōko Koizumi - Yoko, Commercial Executive
• Hiroshi Abe - Aoyama, the Hypnotist
• Ittoku Kishibe - Tatsuya Kobayashi
• Yumi Asou - Misa, Kobayashi's wife
• Kanji Tsuda - Burglar
• Yoshiyuki Morishita - Burglar
• Jai West - Burglar
• Yoshiyoshi Arakawa - Katagiri - Interpreter
• Vinnie Jones - Hired Killer
• Sonny Chiba - Kazama, Pharma Company President
• Shihori Kanjiya - Kaho Kobayashi
• Tomokazu Miura - Doctor Yamauchi

Sources and external links

• Survive Style 5+ at IMDb
• Survive Style 5+ at AllMovie
• ＳＵＲＶＩＶＥ　ＳＴＹＬＥ５＋ (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-07-21.