Yosuke Nakajima

Tatsuya Mori

Shigeru Muroi

Gakuryû Ishii

Katsuhiro Ôtomo

A cop chases a punk who had a fight with his girlfriend through every kind of urban setting, going on so long the punk starts hallucinating.

Shuffle

It&apos;s cool. Robert Rodriguez might&apos;ve been taking notes.

I&apos;m not sure charming is the right word to use to describe Shuffle, seeing as how dark a few parts of it are, but it&apos;s low-budget and really feels like it was made with a great deal of youthful, maybe even student energy, and not necessarily in a bad way. A large chunk of it involves one man chasing another for an obscenely long time, with it fluctuating between being funny and exciting in interesting ways. Some of the camerawork done for these long bursts of action did genuinely impress me, though.

There&apos;s more to it than that, but I felt it was more keen on being surreal and provocative than it was on providing a good deal of context for the action-focused stuff that really mattered. I therefore can&apos;t say I liked this from start to finish, but I did love the start, and it grabbed my attention a few more times before the finish.

For a grimy burst of action and crime, clocking in at the unusual runtime of 35 minutes, you could do so much worse, if you could even do anything else at all. This is too short to be a feature film, but very long by short film standards. Maybe there should be more films that occupy runtimes between 30 and 40 minutes, especially if they&apos;re willing to do gonzo and oftentimes entertaining things as confidently as Shuffle.

I'm not sure charming is the right word to use to describe Shuffle, seeing as how dark a few parts of it are, but it's low-budget and really feels like it was made with a great deal of youthful, maybe even student energy, and not necessarily in a bad way. A large chunk of it involves one man chasing another for an obscenely long time, with it fluctuating between being funny and exciting in interesting ways. Some of the camerawork done for these long bursts of action did genuinely impress me, though.

There's more to it than that, but I felt it was more keen on being surreal and provocative than it was on providing a good deal of context for the action-focused stuff that really mattered. I therefore can't say I liked this from start to finish, but I did love the start, and it grabbed my attention a few more times before the finish.

For a grimy burst of action and crime, clocking in at the unusual runtime of 35 minutes, you could do so much worse, if you could even do anything else at all. This is too short to be a feature film, but very long by short film standards. Maybe there should be more films that occupy runtimes between 30 and 40 minutes, especially if they're willing to do gonzo and oftentimes entertaining things as confidently as Shuffle.

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