Pinocchio 964 is about a woman puking and a guy screaming. And just like modern art, it is garbage no one wants to see unless your IQ is below ignoramus level. The metamorphosis stuff is the only thing that stands out but all the screaming was annoying as hell and endless puking was meaningless and stupid.
... View MoreThis movie is totally confusing and really weird and what not...but...I actually like it. I think Pinocchio is an awesome android...sure, I had no clue what was going on 85% of the time, but oh well. It's suppose to be really....really weird I suppose. I think the best part of the movie is when he's trying to learn his name. But I don't like Himoko...she's just evil. Or that one part where it looks like he's melting into paint...I don't know what that was about, but...it works? I think this is a movie to see and just...be weirded out by. Okay, making a review for this being 10 lines long is really hard for this movie. In conclusion, just see the movie. It's very interesting in a creepy way. But watch out, there is some extreme nudity.
... View MoreEasily one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen, and it owes much in style to Tsukamoto Shin'ya's blistering "Tetsuo." Yeah, it's gross, but it's so over-the-top that you can't help but have fun witnessing it. Grab your buddies and some alcohol, and boom, it's gonna be a blast.The plot is simple, so you can involve yourself in the weirdness that infests these characters. Poor Pinocchio...I feel this twisted up sometimes, and he lets me know I'm not alone.Also, check out "Rubber's Lover," the b&w demi-prequel. Fear of dehumanization is the deepest, and these films look that fear square in the fight-or-fight reflex!
... View MoreThis is one of my favorite films. It seems to deal with a society in which people have been made into commodities, and it focuses on principal characters who have become discarded.Rather than take a heavy handed or moralistic stance, Shozin Fukui brings a strangely restrained humor and an extreme, hysterical weirdness to the story. Along with Shinya Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' it is one of the classics of Japanese mutation film. (It is said that Fukui actually worked on 'Tetsuo.')The cinematography is amazing, ranging from ponderous and Tarkovsky-like to accelerated stop-motion.The performers are wonderful and likeable. Hage Suzuki is like a spastic butoh performer having a constant seizure. Onn-Chan's amazing face seems to have been genetically grown for the specific purpose of being viewed by wide-angle lenses. (Where did these people come from and why is it hard to find any information on them?!)As an added bonus, this film has what has been touted as the most prolonged vomiting sequence in cinema history.
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