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Rubber's Lover

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I strongly suggest not eating during this movie. I thought this movie was kind of cool, but gruesome.

The movie has a somewhat disjointed plot, but seems to tie things up okay in the end. There are really only six characters in this movie, so in some ways it is more like a disjointed play. A play with blood spray, entrails, cannibalism, and the almost manadatory rapes scenes (though, thankfully, no tentacles).

The premise of this movie is that if you torture people with sound and hype them up on ether, you can induce psychic abilities. The two mad-scientists are essentially creating a monster. The movie is sort of like watching Frankenstein on acid.

A word of warning, if you are not into horror or into Japanese films I would strongly suggest you stay away from this film. It is horrific, and it is very Japanese.

While I'm a big fan of the underground movie scene...even the Japanese movie scene that seems to have exploded in America, I can honestly say I don't know how I feel about this film. It's brilliant but at the same time I feel so DIRTY for watching it. Perhaps that's what the director was going for...

I do recommend you buy this even if you're the slightest bit curious. However, if you're looking for some clean cut answers, this is NOT for you. Even when you check out the extra features and watch the interview with the director, it will leave you puzzled.

In the same breath though, I enjoyed watching it. The gritty look of black and white film adds to the "psychoticness" of the overall story. I'd be pressed to say that the characters in the film explore the more primal side of the human psyche.

Ok ok...to sum it up, just buy it! See it for yourself. I still need to watch it a few more times...

The Good Things
*Extremely vivid filming style. Lots of great photography and strong imagery. Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch can eat their hearts out.
*Filmed in glorious black and white! (Although color enthusiasts may hate this).
*Good production design, especially for what appears to be a low-budget film.
*Good acting (even though they spend a good deal of time screaming their heads off).
*Interesting sound design (even though a few parts are kind of irritating).
*Interesting music.

The Bad Things
*Not for the squeamish. Contains quite a few bloody scenes, a rape scene, and one or two other sex scenes.
*Plot is practically incomprehensible. Lots of parts that make you wonder "What the heck is going on now?"

The Questionable Things
*Lots of demented torture scenes and madness.
*Extremely weird too.

This is like watching "Pi" with lots of graphicness and madness. The plot is hard to follow, but the film has lots of awesome camera angles and strong imagery. Sometimes, it's hard to tell if the film is trying to be artistic or just plain mad. In either case, the storyline suffers tremendously, and most people may not really care for this. You'll either hate this, or sit back and revel in the insanity.

The DVD is in fullscreen, and has good picture and sound quality. Special features inclue an older short film, an interview, a photo gallery, and one or two trailers.

Ok this movie DOES have its moments but the whole movie itself is ok. It has alot yelling and bad acting. The movie all together though is really good though. I like the story (in some ways) and i dislike the movie for its action.
I kinda felt like it needed more action and more of a purpose.
You kinda figure it out for yourself.
This review probably isn't helpful because im seriously speechless.

This movie is basically the same thing as Pinocchio 964 which was also directed by Shozin Fukui. There is very little story and it is just an excuse to show people screeching, twitching spaztically, screaming, shrieking, and spewing blood and other liquids.

This one was not nearly as bad as Pinocchio 964 but still an incredibly boring movie. Fukui doesn't use the obnoxiously annoying constant jump cuts like he did in Pinocchio 964 and many of the visuals are interesting to look at especially in the beginning. The visuals and stated plot really had potential but you soon find out Fukui is only interested in watching people throw violent fits for an hour and a half.

This dvd also has an early short by Fukui which has a girl paranoidly running around screaming in public for no explained reason. In the middle she vomits for about 4 minutes (or should I say her hand throws up for 4 minutes.)

From Imdb, it appears I have seen all of Fukui's work.

I guess there is not much of a market for full feature films based solely on people violently spewing liquids for extended periods of time.

It is a shame because this movie does show that Fukui can make a very unique interesting film visually but he has no interest in plots except as a starting point to degenerate into another twitch and spew fest.

This movie will make you think twice as to what you just watched. Did you know that psychic power is realized when mental anguish exceeds physical pain? You will once you watch this movie! Scientists 'Motomiya & Hitotsubashi' use a brain-altering drug (Ether) to conduct experiments, after one such project goes astray, they need to find another test subject (Linuma) in this Japanese Splatter-Punk Film. After the corporation tries to shut these two 'Crazy' scientists down, they take a hostage (An innocent secretary) and conduct guinea pig like experiments on Linuma. Who in turn does some crazy experiments of his own on the secretary (If you know what I mean). At one point there's a strobing effect that was making me wonder if I was going to grab a kitchen utensil and take to the streets if I continued to watch it, but thankfully it ended and I was fine (and the world continued to be safe). This movie reminds me of Tetsuo 'Shinya Tsukamoto' (Partly because it's in B&W (Black & White) and that it's part of the Japanese Cyberpunk Collection). It also reminds me of Eraserhead 'David Lynch' (Because it's also filmed in B&W and has a lot of Industrial-Type settings). This movie also has a 1987 Short Film called "Gerorisuto". it has an interview with the director 'Shozin Fukui', who also directed 964 Pinocchio (Another must see if you like Japanese Cyberpunk Movies). This is not an easy film to watch (It was for me though); Is it ugly? (Yes it is) Is it dark? (As the middle of the night) Is it Creepy (Like the chills up your spine) and it's an audio-visual assault on your senses "It's what I call squirm factor". Now if your still reading this review click on the 'Purchase ASAP' button and why your at it, go ahead and buy Shozin Fukui's first movie '964 Pinocchio'. You can Thank me later for opening up your Third Eye on movies. Stick around and read some of my other 'What I call Third Eye or Dimension Movies' reviews. You only live once and everyone should see these strange, surreal masterpieces, that haven't even barely surfaced in the U.S.