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Favorite films

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • Love Exposure
  • The Handmaiden
  • Oldboy

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  • Heirs of the Beast

  • The Day of the Beast

    ★★★½

  • PERSONA Music Live 2012 - Mayonaka TV in Tokyo International Forum

    ★★★★★

  • The House on Sorority Row

    ★★★

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  • Tokyo Decadence

    Tokyo Decadence

    ★★★★½

    Wichtelclub Runde 28 - Tokyo Decadence - Wichtel-Vermutung Milos

    "I've discovered that I have no talent - none whatsoever."

    A nightmarish downward spiral full of depravity, perversion and self-hatred. The long search for emotional stability, a place to belong, a way out of the loneliness around you, and sanity. And the inevitable fall into madness and insanity, while losing all hope and self-control, in a world as hopeless and lonely as your own life.

    Tokyo Decadence is full of madness.…

  • The Art Idol Koe-chan's Challenge! Transformation Land

    The Art Idol Koe-chan's Challenge! Transformation Land

    Loved it!

    A little documentary gem from Shozin Fukui that, while being a very straightforward documentary, has some aspects of Fukui's unique way of filmmaking.
    But don't expect anime characters to fuck each other here. This is not about the definition of hentai that most people outside of Japan are aware of. It's about the definition of changing yourself.
    It's about a model that we follow to various body painting artists. Where we then see her getting "transformed" into something…

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  • Black Magic Rites

    Black Magic Rites

    ★★★

    Nice colors and all, but what the actuall fuck was that?

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★

    HORRORx52: 2025
    Movie 30/53
    1. The most popular horror film on your watchlist.

    I mean... there are a lot of boobs in this movie, so how can I not love it?

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  • Dragonball Evolution

    Dragonball Evolution

    ½

    It is definitely not that easy to tell what the worst part of this movie is ..

  • Burning

    Burning

    ★★★★★

    Well, fuck. I did expect something good, but that was way beyond that.

    Where do I even start? Over two hours long and it is a real slow burner (pun intended).Even I was skeptical at the start. I didn't know nothing about the film beforehand, so I was asking myself after some time when will the movie starts to get going. Without realizing how Lee Chang-dong built his world and his characters with nearly perfection already from the beginning. The…