Experimental
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(98 min)
1998 - Drama, Experimental - Japan
Goda, an advertising executive, becomes obsessed with getting his hands on the same model handgun that his girlfriend used to commit suicide. His search ends up crossing the path with a street gang that constantly beats him and his growing interest in their female member Chisato. After Goda ultimately succeeds in attaining a gun he aids, willingly, the gang in their own protection from a mysterious killer picking them off.
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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast : Shinya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Takahiro Murase, Tatsuya Nakamura, Kyoka Suzuki, Hisashi Igawa
(95 min)
2000 - Drama, Experimental - South Korea
"Die Bad" is four stories thoroughly interconnected by tragedy and sins of the past. A Korean gangster flick dealing with one catastrophic event in a young man's life and the ripple effect it has on another, spreading through friendship, family and the roles we play in our lives. Rumble: A small scuffle in a billiards hall, between art and technical school students, end in tragedy as Sung-Bin inadvertently takes the life of Hyun-Su. Nightmare: Years later when Sung-Bin is set free from prison, he begins having waking nightmares of his past killing as he attempts to conform to regular life. With his father disowning him and an aggressive officer checking up on him randomly, Sung-Bin descends into madness and is driven into the underworld of crime. Modern Man: Struggling to leave his past and the events of the pool hall behind him, Suk-Hwan becomes an officer of the law. In a stakeout in his car, he follows the boss of a local gang, unaware that Sung-bin is a part of.
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Director : Ryu Sung-Wan
Cast : Ryu Sung-Wan, Ryu Sung-Bin, Park Sung-Bin, Lee Chang-Ho
(55 min)
2000 - Drama, Fantasy, Action, Experimental - Japan
"Dragon Eye" Morrison is a Lizard Inspector who has the ability to communicate with reptiles and wail endlessly on his electric guitar. As a child, he was hit with an electrical charge, thus instilling him with the power of 80,00 Volts. He has a history of exploding into violence since then, and spends his days calmly searching for lost lizards and taking up various related odd jobs. Sharing a common trait is the mysterious Thunderbolt Buddha. He too commands the power of electricity, and when they meet, a lightning charged battle royale ensues. What the hell am I talking about!? Here's a better synopsis! Tadanobu Asano versus Masatoshi Nagase, Rock and Roooooooolllllll!!!!
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Director : Sogo Ishii
Cast : Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase
(90 min)
1997 - Science Fiction, Horror, Experimental, Cyberpunk - Japan
A group of (literally) underground researchers use human guinea pigs, and subject them to extreme noise, pain and lack od oxygen in order to awaken their primal energies - to make them psychic, or some such. When their funding is in danger, they become desperate and start doing even crazier things than before in order to produce results – which only creates more mayhem.
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Director : Shozin Fukui
Cast : Kawase Youta, Nao, Ameya Norimizu, Saitou Sousuke
(120 min)
2004 - Comedy, Experimental - Japan
Survive Style 5 is a collage of multiple sub plots that intersect over the course of the movie. There is a man who kills and buries his wife only to repeat the process multiple times. A typical Japanese nuclear family get tickets to see the show of a famous hypnotist. A trio of young hooligans go around robbing houses. Yoko a commercial executive imagines silly and comical commercials based on events in her day. A British hitman takes a business trip to Japan to perform premium hit jobs.
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Director : Gen Sekiguchi
Cast : Tadanobu Asano, Reika Hashimoto, Kyōko Koizumi, Hiroshi Abe, Ittoku Kishibe, Yumi Asou
(93 min)
1991 - Action, Science Fiction, Experimental - Japan
A Tokyo Businessman with his wife and son are walking the business shops when his son is kidnapped by a group of street thugs. While in pursuit of his son the father is shot by one of the thugs with a strange device. After the thugs oddly return his son, the father starts to notice odd changes with his body that occur in moments of anger. Only to be terrorized constantly by the thugs, the father decides to locate the gang and kill them all.
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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast : Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomoro Taguchi, Hideaki Tezuka, Nobu Kanaoka
(67 min)
1988 - Action, Science Fiction, Experimental - Japan
A young man and his girlfriend accidentally run over a metal fetishist and from this moment, the man starts to discover metal parts growing out of his body. After many horrific events, the young man faces off with the metal fetishist in a "climetalic" showdown.
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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast : Taguchi Tomoroh, Fujiwara Kei, Ishibashi Renji, Kanaoko Nobu, Tsukamoto Shinya
(113 min)
2001 - Comedy, Music, Experimental - Japan
After being laid off from his job, a father gathers his family from obscurity to a small, quaint guesthouse by an active mountain in order to operate it as a tourist lodging. While some members of the family have obvious relation problems, the father attempts to see it through as the guests who begin staying at their bed and breakfast resort start dropping dead in ridiculous ways. In order to stay rational in all this insanity, they “sing like no one is listening, dance like no one is watching” in this musical epic landmark by anarchist director, Takashi Miike.
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Director : Takashi Miike
Cast : Kiyoshiro Imawano, Keiko Matsuzaka, Naomi Matsuzaka, Teturo Tamba, Kenji Sawada, Shinji Takeda
(84 min)
2001 - Comedy, Experimental - Japan
Kiyoshi a failed TV show reporter, was sent on vacation a few months ago. Even with this slight set back Kiyoshi is still determined to do a documentary about sex and violence among the youth. He is so focused on his project that he exploits his family's problems to create material for his documentary. One day a mysterious stranger arrives and he moves in with the family, little do they know that this stranger will change their lives forever.
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Director : Takashi Miike
Cast : Kenichi Endo, Fujiko, Jun Muto, Shoko Nakahara, Ikko Suzuki, Shungiku Uchida
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