Nipple-targeting seagulls. Old men rapping in a bathhouse. Drugs smuggled as Italian pasta. Welcome back to The Mole Song’s world. The third and final part of this series of manga adaptations, by IFFR regular Miike Takashi, is once again loaded with delicious madness.Following Undercover Agent Reiji (IFFR 2014) and Hong Kong Capriccio (IFFR 2017), this time the enemy are Italian mafia smuggling their ‘speed-a-roni’ into Yokohama’s port. Yakuza boss Papilon, fearing for his business, wants to stop them from entering, and so do the Japanese cops: Reiji works for both as an undercover agent. All these complications this give cult director Miike a playground for crazed subplots.At times fooling us into thinking it’s an ordinary action thriller, The Mole Song: Final is a cocktail that smashes together slapstick comedy, farcical fantasy and puppet animation, with Reiji – played again by the energetic and engaging Ikuta Toma - always at the centre of the tornado that just keeps on spinning.
1927年,大量贫苦农民涌向台湾九份山区金瓜石,圆他们的淘金梦。憨厚的佃农阿助、阿尾兄弟随着淘金人潮来到九份,投租在寡妇阿柔的陋屋里。阿柔是位人称克夫运的可怜女人,她与阿助日久生情。淘金热的兴起,使九份充斥着走私与色情。日本方面派才俊柴田负责治理金矿的秩序。然而,矿工与妓院勾结,黄金交易日益猖獗,抗争事件纷乱迭起,才俊被杀。阿助与阿柔婚后不久病故,阿柔欲哭无泪,带着四个孩子及亡夫的牌位,落寞地离开九份……