
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. Who will end up with the money?... (Full plot summary below)
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Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. Who will end up with the money?
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| User Reviewkyo 9super peep numero siete. The. The. DVD cover = no Ella es musica con clothes. |
| User ReviewEric RAn amazing movie, great characters and story. Very funny! Tadanobu Asano shines once again. |
| User ReviewAdam PA funny and excellently constructed chamber piece, Party 7 introduces 7 characters early in the film (via an extended anime credit sequence not unlike that of a TV show) and spends the rest of its runtime cutting back and forth between 4 arguing in a hotel room, 2 peeping on them from a secret annex, and 1 driving on his way to kill them all. It remains a comedy to the core though, and a strange one at that, run on bizarre dialogue and dysfunctional characters who keep it interesting. It's as if Ishii decided to take his Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl, narrow the scope, condense it to one location, and treat it as a comedy. |
| User ReviewChristopher BBeing a Katsuhito Ishii fan, I'm biased in the film's favor. It's probably the most flawed and weakest overall of all that I've seen - falling somewhere between Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl in terms of gangster comedy and where he went with The Taste of Tea and Funky Forest: The First Contact in terms of surrealist humor. It doesn't hit every note perfectly, but he pulls it off well enough that the film entertains and still feels fresher than most of what's out there with ease. Worth checking out if you've enjoyed Ishii's other films, but as more focused cinema goes, Shark Skin Man, Taste of Tea, and Funky Forest all work better. The cast's really going all out in playing their characters certainly helps as well. A little more tightening of the script could've made many of the film's problems quickly disappear - we spend a little too much time with the voyeurs, and some of the dialogue comes off as overly redundant for the sake of humor. You can only make that gag work so many times, and Ishii didn't know when to hit the brake pedal on those bits. But otherwise, Party 7 thoroughly entertains. It delivers a fun '70s flavor similar to - though not as consumingly well done as - Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl, and the characters are goofy, likable, and fun to watch, from the more archetypal ones to the fresher ones. The animated intro is similarly as memorable as shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl's crazy opening as well. You can tell Ishii and company had a lot of fun making this one. (As you can with all of his films. Ishii is on the cutting edge of Japanese comedy cinema.) |
| User ReviewNick MA strange and very obscure Japanese comedy that opens with an amazing anime credit sequence only to have the rest of the live action film not live up to the violent promise displayed by its titles. |
| User ReviewLuke BScattershot and hyperactive in a way only Japanese cinema can get away with, Party 7 is an enjoyable frantic mess. After a speedy animated introduction to 7 different characters, we are suddenly thrust into a narrative about some stolen money. As the man hides in a hotel room, he has no idea he is being watched by some professional peepers (one dressed in super-hero garb and calling himself Captain Banana). As people come looking for the money, the hotel room gets crowded, and twists are revealed. It's very claustrophobic, being set in just two rooms, which is painfully awkward given the over-the-top style. The humour is broad and weird. Funny and fun, even though I was disappointed that the image on the DVD case is nowhere to be found in the film :( |
| User ReviewVaibhav WProves once again why Katsuhito Ishii is one of Japan's most celebrated director. Pity the film is so eccentric it doesn't impress much! |
| User ReviewGreg NTadanobu Asano, who plays a creepy steve urkel type, gets attacked by a dude called Captain Banana. that's the only good. |
| User ReviewPascal TA piss poor mix of MYSTERY MEN and FOUR ROOMS. It's not funny nor witty, though it tries so very hard to be. One star goes to the absolutely kick ass anime intro! |