Directed by Atsushi Yamatoya • Drama • With Yûichi Minato, Miki Watari • 1967 • 87 minutes
Japanese director Atsushi Yamatoya's eerie, seedy and dreamlike film noir about a hitman seeking revenge for the death of his girlfriend, with fractured, time-bending overtones of John Boorman's POINT BLANK and Christopher Nolan's MEMENTO. From the co-writer of Seijun Suzuki's BRANDED TO KILL.
Up Next in Deaf Crocodile
-
The Mysterious Castle In The Carpathians
Directed by Oldřich Lipský • Drama • With Miloš Kopecký, Michal Dočolomanský, Evelyna Steimarová, Rudolf Hrušínský • 1981 • 99 minutes
A unique and almost indescribable mix of Gothic fiction, steampunk gadgetry (designed by Czech animation wizard Jan Švankmajer), slapstick comedy and romantic op...
-
The Outcasts (w/ Cyril Cusack)
Directed by Robert Wynne-Simmons • Drama • With Cyril Cusack, Mary Ryan • 1982 • 106 minutes
A major rediscovery for fans of folklore, fantasy and folk horror, the long-lost Irish film THE OUTCASTS was directed by Robert Wynne-Simmons, famed for writing on BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW. THE OUTCASTS pla...
-
The Pied Piper
Directed by Jiří Barta • Animation • With Oldrich Kaiser, Jirí Lábus • 1986 • 53 minutes
Czech director Jiří Barta's stop-motion animated masterpiece, based on "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches inspired by German ...
