THE MOLE SONG: UNDERCOVER AGENT REIJI (Japan, 2014)
Director: Takashi Miike 
Starring: Toma Ikuta, Riisa Naka, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Kamiji, Takashi Okamura, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Kenichi Endo, Sarutoki Minagawa, Ren Osugi, Koichi Iwaki 

With The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji, Japan’s most prolific and most popular gonzo director, Takashi Miike, offers two-plus irresistibly frantic hours of undiluted insanity. An out-and-out balls-to-the-wall cops vs. yakuza farce, the film leaves respectability, restraint, and decency at the door. Improbably inept rookie cop Reiji Kikukawa (Toma Ikuta) wants to do the right thing but when he tries to bust a city councilor who’s caught molesting a teenage girl he gets fired without much ceremony. He is quickly rehired by his superiors for what turns out to be a suicide undercover mission to infiltrate a brutal yakuza clan. After all, who would suspect such a moron to be a plant? Reiji starts donning a leopard-spotted suit with matching accessories, and soon befriends Crazy Papillon (Shinichi Tsutsumi, Why Don’t You Play in Hell?), the No. 2 in the gang, and a man who also likes to keep it classy with cute little butterflies adorning his coat. Sharing Reiji’s impeccable fashion sense and his distaste for drugs, they bond over a number of gangster-like predicaments, the way gangsters do, and together they face the diamond-toothed “cat” Nekozawa (Takashi Okamura) and his gang of cat-men. A monument to pop madness and perhaps, in more ways than one, an apotheosis of post-cinema cinema.