Friday, May 15, 2009

Weekly Trailers


One Million Yen and the Nigamushi Woman - Yuki Tanada (2008)


"Moon and Cherry" director Yuki Tanada joins forces with actress Yu Aoi to tell the story of a young woman with a criminal record who goes from town to town working odd jobs so that she can save ¥1 million.




Horrors of Malformed Men - Teruo Ishii (1969)

Teruo Ishii's controversial 1969 film "Horrors of Malformed Men" mixes shlock cinema and high culture to bring the stories of Japanese ero-guro author Edogawa Rampo to the screen. The founder of the avant-garde butoh school of dance, Tatsumi Hijikata, stars as a mad genius who, like H.G. Wells' Dr. Moreau, is conducting experiments on humans on his island stronghold.

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