NYAFF XXII Review: MAYHEM GIRLS, Pandemic Pains And Chaos Reigns In Shinichi Fujita’s Superpowered Coming-Of-Age Teen Fable
Director Shinichi Fujita reaches some pretty ambitious heights for his third feature, Mayhem Girls. A coming of age tale set during an all too familiar Covid-19 pandemic, Fujita directs from a script by Erika Nakayama who shares a number of screen credits on both sides of the lens. The film also reteams Fujita with stunt multihyphenate Yuji Shimomura for several feats of wire-infused sequences to help bolster the film’s fantasy spectacle and allure. You get a tiny sense of to what degree Fujita sets out to achieve this in last year’s campaign for the film ahead of its late 2022 release. The footage quickly reveals a woman in midair dodging cars suddenly whizzing by in the air before crashing and exploding into buildings, which made me all the more curious. Alas, before all else, we need a setup for this whole shebang and for this, we turn to Mizuho (Mizuki […]
