A young woman is blackmailed into perfoming kinky and perverse acts in public by a man whom she may or may not know…

This is very much a back to basics type of film for Tsukamoto, shot in 16mil monochrome. It lacks the crazy kinetic energy of his previous films, but this finds him more mature and contemplative. And that’s not necassarily a…[Read more]

Possibly my favourite of all Tsukamoto’s movies, Tokyo Fist dispenses with the warped future fantasies of his earlier work and centres on a bleak and destructive love triangle. The film explores sadism, S&M, self-mutilation, machizmo, and boasts the most brutal boxing match in cinema history. You’ll feel like you’ve done 15 draining rounds with…[Read more]

This second outing for Tsukamoto is bigger, better, in colour, and boasts much cooler haircuts this time around. Tamora Taguchi stars as the innocent salary man whose young child is abducted by a couple of thugs. When he gives chase he is shot in the chest with some kind of rivet gun, and this seems to infect his flesh turning him into… yep, you…[Read more]

A Japanese salary man inexplicably begins to mutate into a highly-charged human tank.

Shinya Tsukamomto’s feature debut is a trip from start to finish, featuring rapid fast-cut editing, insanely creative animations, and rape by drillbit cock! It’s a strange cross between Cronenberg, Manga anime, The Evil Dead, and Robocop. Unmissable.

Noe’s latest offering isn’t as visually shocking as his previous work but there is a crushingly bleak atmosphere throughout this film. It’s a 2 and a half hour journey with a dying drug dealer who has just been shot by Japanese police. We follow his spirit as it re-traces important moments from his life and a bizarre trippy style. There are…[Read more]

The Temple ov Psychick Youth is a loose cult who practice extremely violent sex magik (among other things), and this is a video they released in the early 80′s complete with induction ceromonies, strange logos which try to brainwash the viewers, cutting, needling, electric shock orgasms, and death. Some volenteer is even castrated, but this…[Read more]

Directed by Sion Sono
Japan

An obnoxious woman writes a controversial novel and soon we learn that the events in the book may not be enirely fictitious.

The description above does nothing to convey what goes on in this film, as there is way more to it than that, but let’s just say that this is one very twisted little movie and an…[Read more]

Directed by Rolf de Heer
Australia.

The wife of a newly promoted business man takes the kids and leaves him, but not before leaving behind a damning videotape for him to watch.

This is a very good Aussie film, a slow-burner that builds up gradually and the shocks are all the better for it. I wouldn’t recommend this to those who love gore…[Read more]