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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky 1991
Enough, we’re human beings!
Ngai Choi Lam’s Cat III masterpiece if just as insane as I remembered it being. I first watched this film when I was around 15, the imagery in it stuck with me forever. Riki-oh: the story of Ricky has such an incredible atmosphere to it, it’s unlike anything I have encountered. Everything about the film is drenched in excess.
We follow Riki-Oh a young man who has just been incarcerated for the murder of a triad.…
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Sky Peals 2023
I think my dad might be an alien
England’s cities are connected by endless snaking motorways and lifeless industrial estates. The most alien of these places are the service station. They exist in a reality of their own, neither one place or another. This place detached from identity suits Adam well. He works flipping burgers in a fast food joint in the Sky Peals Garden service station. Adam is a nervous young man who’s life is rapidly falling apart, however…
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The Face of Another 1966
What is a face, just the space above the neck covered with a sheet of rice paper
Hiroshi Teshigahara brings us this masterpiece of a film on identity, anonymity and alienation. I really cannot fault this film at all, it’s incredible how timeless it is despite being made 57 years ago. The plot centers on Mr Okuyama, a man who has had his face badly disfigured. He enlists the help of his psychiatrist to create a life like mask, so…
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Blind Beast 1969
Give me an ecstatic death.
Yasuzo Masamura bring us the pinku film to end all pinku films. Perverse, twisted, dark yet somehow erotic “Blind Beast” is unlike anything I have ever seen. Hard to believe that a fetish film this extreme could come from 1969. The same year we had ‘Carry on Camping’ the Japanese got this dive into the furthest reaches of sexual depravity. Yet the film is still a phenomenal work of art, not the kind of B…
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