Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1999) is a Japanese crime comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Director Katsuhito Ishii adapted Minetaro Mochizuki's manga: Toshiko flees her unhinged uncle and stumbles straight into Samehada, who is himself running from yakuza hitmen. Neither has anywhere better to be, so they run together.

The tone is pure manga — bursts of slapstick violence, odd supporting characters who materialize and vanish, a chase that keeps accelerating without stopping to explain itself. Tadanobu Asano plays Samehada with a deadpan cool that tips into absurdity at just the right moments. Feels like a comic strip moving at seventy miles an hour. Stream Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1999) online on iFILM.