Inflatable Sex Doll Of The Wastelands
Films from Japan
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1h 26m
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.
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