Hold Up Down
Hôrudo appu daun
Japan
2005
96 Min
Color
Japanese
Synopsis
From cult film-maker Sabu, the director of the 2003 film Hard Luck Hero, comes yet an other wacky comedy caper, Hold Up Down (A.K.A. Horudo appu daun), which just so happens to star the members of the popular boy band V6: Sakamoto Masayuki, Nagano Hiroshi, Inohara Yoshihiko, Morita Go, Miyake Ken, and Okada Junichi! In the film, Inohara and Miyake join to take on the lead roles, playing Kimata Choji and Sagawa Yutaka respectively, a couple of hapless bank robbers, who make mistake after mistake in their bid to redistribute some wealth in their favor. One of the worst blunders ends up causing their precious get-away car to get towed right in the middle of the big heist! Dressed head to toe in Santa Claus out-fits, this not-so-dynamic duo decides to hide its cash “earnings” in a train station locker, only to discover that neither of them have the correct change to operate the locker itself! Along the way, the two thieves decide to steal from a near-by street musician named Sawamura Koichi (Okada Junichi), but to their complete surprise, he chases after them! Even worse, Hoshino Yusuke (Nagano Hiroshi) and Kiba Masami, two gung-ho police officers, decide to join the chase, along with Hiramatsu Masaru (Morita Go), a concerned citizen who becomes an interested party himself! Considering all this manic excitement, just how will it all end for these two Christmas-themed robbers? Find out in Sabu’s Hold Up Down, an excellent ensemble piece for the famousr V6! —asianmediawiki.com
Director
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Sabu (サブ Sabu?, born November 18, 1964) is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director Hiroyuki Tanaka (田中博行[ Tanaka Hiroyuki?).
Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Sabu studied at an Osaka fashion school before deciding to go to Tokyo to become a professional musician. It was suggested he try acting and in 1986 he made his film debut in Sorobanzuku. He earned his first starring role in the 1991 World Apartment Horror, a live-action film directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo of Akira fame. Working from a script he wrote himself, he made his directorial debut with the 1996 Dangan Runner, a film that set his early style of “quirky action-comedies propelled by characters who hurtle headlong though squirming narratives steered more by the forces of incidence and coincidence than the actions of the protagonists themselves.” Shin’ichi Tsutsumi played the lead in Sabu’s first five films. Blessing Bell, starring Susumu Terajima (who has played minor roles in nearly all of Sabu’s films), was a turn away… read more
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