Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
鮫肌男と桃尻女
Directed by Katsuhito Ishii
Produced by Hilo Iizumi,
Kazuto Takida
Written by Katsuhito Ishii,
Minetaro Mochizuki (manga)
Starring Tadanobu Asano,
Shie Kohinata
Distributed by Viz Media,
Tidepoint Pictures
Release date(s) 1999 (japan)
Running time 108 min.
Language Japanese
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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (鮫肌男と桃尻女 Samehada Otoko to Momojiri Onna?) is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Katsuhito Ishii and starring Tadanobu Asano. It is based on a manga of the same name by Minetaro Mochizuki which was originally serialized in Mister Magazine circa 1993 under the title "Daisharin" (Big Wheel). The current title was adopted when the comic was published as its own book.

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[edit] Story

Distracted by the sight of a handsome, nearly naked man sprinting across a winding mountain road, Toshiko (Shie Kohinata) inadvertently interrupts a mob execution by crashing her car into a limo full of eccentric assassins. Fresh from a frenzied menage a trois (threesome), Belmondo-cool Samehada (Tadanobu Asano) seduces Toshiko into a life or death race with an army of mob killers joined by a moon-walking, love struck amateur hit-man dispatched by Toshiko's depraved uncle.

[edit] Cast


The Yakuza Hitmen

  • Daigaku Sekine as Sakaguchi
  • Koh Takasugi as Sorimachi
  • Shingoro Yamada as Taniguchi
  • Hitoshi Kiyokawa as Maruo
  • Yoji Tanaka as Asahina
  • Keisuke Horibe as Inuzuka
  • Yoshiyuki Morishita as Hidari
  • Kanji Tsuda as Fukazume

[edit] Guns Used in Film

Samehada uses a Beretta 92F handgun. Sawada uses a .38 Snubnose revolver. Mitsuru uses a silver Mark XIX Desert Eagle. Yamada uses both a M1911 pistol and a .44 Colt Anaconda revolver. Sakaguchi uses a 4-inch Smith & Wesson Model 686 revolver. Sorimachi uses a modified black M1911 pistol

Taniguchi uses a 6-inch Smith & Wesson Model 686 revolver. Maruo uses a black Mark XIX Desert Eagle, however his is smaller than Mituru's. Hidari and Fukazume both use small .476 Enfield Revolvers.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Puchalski, Steve (2000). "Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl: Review and Commentary". Asian Cult Cinema 28 (3rd Quarter): pp.37–39. 
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