964 PINOCCHIO

Will Salmon

EXTRAS ▸ RELEASED 31 MARCH 1991 | 18 | Blu-ray ▸ Director Shozin Fukui ▸ Cast Haji Suzuki, Onn-chan, Kôji Ôtsubo, Rakumaro San’yûtei BLU-RAY DEBUT “When the spirit has overcome the limitations of the flesh, superior abilities will develop”, says director Shozin Fukui about his arthouse cyberpunk splatter flick in one of the interviews on this disc. It’s about as close an explanation as you’re likely to get for this defiantly singular film, so just sit back and enjoy/endure a perplexing ride. In a cyberpunk future (that looks like ’90s Tokyo), an amnesiac sex slave cyborg (Haji Suzuki) is rescued by young Himiko (Onn-chan), who helps him regain his memories. It’s not long, however, before the cyborg’s owners come looking for him. Cue blood, nudity, extensive vomiting, and more screaming than…

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