Blind Beast (Mōjū) first published by Little White Lies, as the 134th entry in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “My name is Aki Shima,” Aki (Mako Midori) says in voiceover at the beginning of Blind Beast (Mōjū). “I was never very popular as a fashion model.” This narration is accompanied by black-and-white images of Aki taken…
Gemini (aka Soseiji) first published by Little White Lies, as entry 115 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column By the time Shinya Tsukamoto helmed Gemini (aka Soseiji) in 1999, he had already established for himself an idiosyncratic filmmaking language all his own. His features like Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), its bigger budget 1992 sequel Tetsuo…
Horrors of Malformed Men first published by Little White Lies, as entry 65 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “This story begins in a grey room,” intones our protagonist Hirosuke Hitomu (Teruo Yoshida). It is 1925, and Hirosuke, as disoriented as we are, finds himself in a cell otherwise filled with babbling, half-naked women, one of…