September 18, 2008
A Japanese Lynch or Cronenberg; I can't decide. So bizarre you can't look away.
Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Shinya Tsukamoto
Shinya Tsukamoto draws on the marriage of flesh and technology that inspires so much of David Cronenberg's work and then twists it into a manga-influenced cyberpunk vision. A man (Tomoroh Taguchi) awa...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 18, 1998
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December 23, 2007Twisted artistic expeimental madness. A plot is buried deep within the dark industrial visuals somewhere but this is more demonstrating of low budget black and white photogrophy. Reminiscent of David Lynch, this is certainly more like a very bad dream than an actual film. Great e...( read more)
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June 8, 2007A low budget psychological horror shot in grainy black and white is more an exercise in cinematic surrealism than a narrative story in it's truest sense. Full of disturbing cyberpunk imagery, this is not to everyone's taste but fans of Lynch's Eraserhead and the work of David Cro...( read more)
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May 11, 2007Bizarro film about a man who slowly becomes a machine. More of a music video than a film. Particularly memorable is the rape by machine.
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December 1, 2006Still holds well to this day, Tsukamoto has certainly growed a lot as a filmaker. Some of his methods may have changed but themes are still very much the same, the lost of hummanity in urban scenarios, and how said enviroments can affect the way people live.
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November 22, 2009This is not for every one. It an experimental art movie for "B" movie people. There is no dialoge but the music is great "industrial/techno" vibe that fits the story. I was almost going to turn it off about 5 minutes in, but gave it a chance and glad I did.
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September 20, 2009insane. insane. insane. i wanted to laugh, cry, cringe, and shoot myself in the head all at once during the "sex" scene.
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August 19, 2009Excellent homoerotic S&M torture porno splatter cyberpunk surrealist gorefest horror action film.
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August 17, 2009a good insight of the whole cyberpunk movement. Dark, with no compromise, and an unstoppable train of thoughts
to where the humanity is leading us.. im probably as unclear as the movie can be... just sit and watch.
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