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    Unique ID Code: 0000204273
    Added by: Jitendar Canth
    Added on: 18/3/2020 17:35
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    Pink Films Vol. 1 & 2

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    Newly remastered versions of both films
    Certificate: 18
    Running Time: 160 mins
    Retail Price: £19.99
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    Content Type: Movie

    Synopsis:
    Atsushi Yamatoya s Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands is a deliciously delirious cult film about a hitman (Yuichi Minato) who is hired by a rich real estate agent to find an abducted woman (Noriko Tatsumi). This simple setup gives way to a hip and chaotic worldview full of hard-boiled characters, sexy action, and hallucinatory imagery. A close collaborator with the likes of Koji Wakamatsu, Yamatoya was part of the group of anonymous writers who worked on Wakamatsu Productions and was also one of the anonymous writers on the script of Seijun Suzuki s Branded to Kill. In his book Behind the Pink Curtain, Jasper Sharp calls the film probably the most idiosyncratic work the genre has ever produced.

    The most cryptic and formally radical pink film from the most politically radical director ever to work in the field: GUSHING PRAYER deploys actual suicide notes and a haunting guitar refrain by folk musician Minami Masato to express the spiritual and political left vacuum in the wake of the failed student movements of the 1960s. The cinematography by Itô Hideo, who also shot Ôshima Nagisha's IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (1976), captures an intriguing melding of the documentary with the cinematic.

    Special Features:

    Video Tracks:
    2.35:1 widescreen 1080p monochrome

    Audio Tracks:
    DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo Japanese

    Subtitle Tracks:
    English
    German

    Directed By:
    Atsushi Yamatoya
    Masao Adachi

    Written By:


    Starring:
    Miki Watari
    Yûichi Minato
    Shôhei Yamamoto
    Masayoshi Nogami
    Noriko Tatsumi
    Mari Nagisa
    Aki Sasaki
    Hiroshi Saitô
    Makiko Kim
    Yûji Aoki
    Shigenori Noda

    Music From:
    Yosuke Yamashita
    Masato Minami

    Director of Photography:
    Hajime Kai
    Hideo Itô

    Editor:
    Shôgo Sakurai
    Isamu Nakajima

    Producer:
    Teruo Yamoto

    Distributor:
    Third Window Films

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