I saw this movie back in my craziest years working at a punk club ('Democrazy' named after a Lyndon Kwesi Johnson song) . Those were the eighties… We had no future but we were the future (as if we cared). The club had gigs, party's, a café with vegetarian food and gallons of beer and I was trying to run a small cineclub once or twice a month. Usually there were only two or three die-hard fans in the room. We started with 35 mm movies with an old projector showing classics like Freaks or Der Golem (usually it required me to hold my finger against the movie halfway the tape to prevent it from jumping about), but after a few years we used to hire a videoprojector (DVD still didn't exist back then at least not in my parts) and show more extreme stuff. I'll tell you about the Jörg Buttgereit cycle I programmed another time. This little gem is probably one of the first examples of cyberpunk ever made. And director Shozin Fukui seems to me, together with Matthew Barney, Alejandro Jodorowski, the Quays brothers and Dusan Makavejev one of the most bizarre filmmakers in the business. I guess I read about it Psychotronic Video or in Cult Movies, two of my favourite magazines back then.
It starts with the idea that in a strange future, some men will be 'treated' to become partially androidized and used as sex toys for libidinous women. Nothing raunchy there, it's all very grim. One of the critters named (square root) 964 Pinocchio, being unable to satisfy his customers, is put out with the garbage and starts roaming the streets acting in an increasingly bizarre way. At the same time an amnesiac woman seems to recognize him and tries to communicate with him.
That's the start of a visionary movie with disturbing scenes or humorous scenes or both. It starts in a potential future Japan and ends under the Eiffel tower for no particular reason (or maybe a symbol of the main character's final erection?). And it has the most gruesome - I kid you not - vomit scene ever put on film. And I mean the tantalous volume (pyramid is more like it) of it coming out of a small Japanese woman. Again, for no obvious reason. Unregarding the content, the filming of the scenes seems terrific to me. And it even has a hilarious roadrunner bit.
If you want to read more (spoiler alert) or just see some great shots
www.mandiapple.com/snowbloo...cchio.htm
www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/...occhio/
It starts with the idea that in a strange future, some men will be 'treated' to become partially androidized and used as sex toys for libidinous women. Nothing raunchy there, it's all very grim. One of the critters named (square root) 964 Pinocchio, being unable to satisfy his customers, is put out with the garbage and starts roaming the streets acting in an increasingly bizarre way. At the same time an amnesiac woman seems to recognize him and tries to communicate with him.
That's the start of a visionary movie with disturbing scenes or humorous scenes or both. It starts in a potential future Japan and ends under the Eiffel tower for no particular reason (or maybe a symbol of the main character's final erection?). And it has the most gruesome - I kid you not - vomit scene ever put on film. And I mean the tantalous volume (pyramid is more like it) of it coming out of a small Japanese woman. Again, for no obvious reason. Unregarding the content, the filming of the scenes seems terrific to me. And it even has a hilarious roadrunner bit.
If you want to read more (spoiler alert) or just see some great shots
www.mandiapple.com/snowbloo...cchio.htm
www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/...occhio/
