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Tôkyô Zankoku Keisatsu “She is the only actress in the world who can look so beautiful just standing in the midst of a gushing spray of blood.”–Yoshihiro Nishimura on Eihi Shiina “I wouldn’t say I liked being covered in blood… [but] I really love the surrealism and beauty of these scenes, while I’m getting covered . . . → Read More: 142. TOKYO GORE POLICE (2008) Uchu kara no messeji DIRECTED BY: Kinji Fukasaku FEATURING: Philip Casnoff, Peggy Lee Brennan, Hiroyuki Sanada, Masazumi Okabe, Vic Morrow, Makoto Satô, Etsuko Shihomi, Sonny Chiba PLOT: A race of evil robotic samurai conquer a peaceful tribe of leaf-headed aliens, who send out eight magic space nuts to track down reluctant heroes to save their planet. . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: MESSAGE FROM SPACE (1978) Space Shower TV is a Japanese music channel which also features a variety of thirty second shorts from various directors. Everything we’ve seen passes the weirdness test, but we found these two to be exceptional.
DIRECTED BY: Abbas Kiarostami FEATURING: Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase PLOT: Akiko is a young female student moonlighting as a call girl; her pimp sends her on an assignment in the suburbs, where her client, Takashi, is an elderly professor who doesn’t seem terribly interested in her carnal services. When he deigns to . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (2012) DIRECTED BY: Kazuyoshi Katayama FEATURING: Brina Palencia, Patrick Seitz (English dub) PLOT: A group of randomly chosen global volunteers are cryogenically frozen to escape a petrification virus, but wake up to a world overrun by monsters.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: King of Thorn falls afoul of the anime conundrum: . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: KING OF THORN (2009) Ai no Mukidashi “Nothing is more important than love.”–Shion Sono on the theme of Love Exposure DIRECTED BY: Shion Sono FEATURING: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Atsurô Watabe, Makiko Watanabe PLOT: Yu Honda, the son of a Catholic priest, falls in with a gang of upskirt photographers in an attempt to generate sins . . . → Read More: 129. LOVE EXPOSURE (2008) Tenku no shiro Laputa; AKA Laputa: Castle in the Sky DIRECTED BY: Hayao Miyazaki FEATURING (U.S. Dubbed Version): James Van Der Beek, Anna Paquin, Cloris Leachman PLOT: A girl who falls from the sky and an orphaned boy search together for a legendary floating city while being chased by flying pirates and a . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: CASTLE IN THE SKY (1986) DIRECTED BY: Shojin Fukui FEATURING: Norimizu Ameya, Yôta Kawase, Mika Kunihiro, Sosuke Saito PLOT: In the midst of bizarre and intricate top secret drug research, four mad scientists run low on test subjects and use one another as guinea pigs. Their equipment malfunctions as the team succumbs to the drug’s psychotic effects. The entire . . . → Read More: RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: RUBBER’S LOVER (1996) DIRECTED BY: Tak Sakaguchi, Yûdai Yamaguchi FEATURING: Tak Sakaguchi, Shingo Tsurumi, Mei Kurokawa, Jun Murakami PLOT: One-man army Shozo is called back from mercenary work in South America after the death of his father, a powerful yakuza boss. He sets out to reclaim control of his gang, eventually joining an experimental government program that . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: YAKUZA WEAPON (2011) AKA Kyatapirâ DIRECTED BY: Kôji Wakamatsu FEATURING: Shinobu Terajima, Keigo Kasuya PLOT: Lieutenant Kurokawa loses all four limbs and is rendered deaf, dumb and disfigured during the Japanese invasion of China on the eve of World War II; when the Emperor declares him a “Living War God,” his wife Shigeko is ordered to care . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: CATERPILLAR (2010) |
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