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July 15, 2011
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There are strange movies, and then there are stranger movies. Movies that simply cannot be described with words alone. There are movies you see, and then there are movies you experience . This list compiles ten of the strangest Japanese movies that simply must be seen to be believed. Have you seen Japan's ten strangest movies? I bet you haven't, and you're missing out.
A lot of the trailers for these wacky movies are pretty NSFW and include gore, explicit language, and in some cases, even dude butt. You've been warned!
House is a cult classic and with good reason. It starts out like a whimsical fairy tale adventure of seven friends going to the countryside for a lovely summer holiday. Up to this point the film seems entirely ordinary, but things start to turn sour shortly after they arrive at the house in question. From there on in, things just get weirder and weirder.
Especially considering the year it was made, House is pretty impressive. It's interesting, weird, creepy, and goofy. While I wouldn't exactly be jumping at the chance to watch it again, I'd absolutely recommend it to anyone who appreciates horror films. This movie was definitely ahead of its time.
It's a cult classic you wouldn't want to miss out on. How can you go wrong with killer pianos, multi-colored blood, and glowy eyed cats?
When I rented this movie I really wasn't expecting anything special. I just thought it would be another run-of-the-mill Japanese horror film. Well, I was wrong. Marebito is very well done and quite interesting.
The main character is a freelance cameraman obsessed with fear. In the movie he takes it upon himself to investigate an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo, but what he discovers is beyond anything he could have ever imagined.
Marebito is very different from most other Japanese horror films. The story is really cool and you actually care about what's happening. It's not one of those movies you'd watch just for the thrills and chills. The story is very well done and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Versus takes place almost exclusively in the forest of resurrection where anyone who is killed is resurrected time and time again. The main character fights to protect a girl he just met and slowly unravels his destiny.
Versus is one of those movies I could watch over and over again and never get tired of it. There's just something about this movie that makes it so enjoyable. Is it the action? The drama? The zombies? The action? The weapons? The dramatic zombie weapon action? Maybe. Whatever it is, Versus is definitely a must see from this list. Check it out.
Survive Style 5+ is one of my top favorite movies of all time. We've got an all star cast including the likes of Vinnie Jones (X-Men: The Last Stand's Juggernaut). He almost always plays a no-nonsense badass in his films and Survive Style 5+ is no exception. His inclusion in this movie is both hilarious and awesome.
Starting off in unrelated plot lines, the main characters eventually weave their stories into one ridiculous adventure. We have one man who continuously fails at getting his wife to stay dead, a murderous commercial director who comes up with the most insane ad ideas, a British hitman who's only interested in knowing your function in life, and an unfortunate salaryman who thinks he's a bird.
The movie is directed by an award winning Japanese commercial creator and it really shows in the film. There is no scene that isn't funny, interesting, or colorful. It grabs your attention and never lets go. If you only pick one movie from this list to watch, make it this one. Please. You'd be doing yourself a favor.
When I saw this one I actually wasn't expecting too much but I ended up liking it a lot more than I expected. I didn't really care for the story, but all the imagery and crazy stuff they did more than made up for it. It's one of those movies where you can easily turn off your brain and just take in all of the ridiculous things being thrown at you.
In the world of Tokyo Gore Police the force has been privatized in order to combat homicidal mutants known as "engineers." These engineers possesses the ability to graft a weapon onto any sort of bodily injury. The main character fights many of these on her journey to avenge her father's death.
If you like over the top violence and gore paired with some really messed up nonsense, then this is definitely one to check out.
That pretty much sums up the entire movie for me. But first things first. Paprika is a gorgeous movie. The colors and art style are simply fantastic. It is truly a sight to behold. If you have a projector, or a friend with one, watch this movie on it. Your eyes will thank you.
And the main song for the movie is brilliant. My favorite part of the entire movie was the opening sequence. I love that song.
In the movie there is a machine that has been designed to let people enter the dreams of others. However, after this device is stolen, everything starts to go wrong for just about everyone. Insanity ensues and it's up to Paprika to set everything back in order.
The movie overall is a mixed bag in my opinion. Some parts are astonishing and wonderfully done. Truly a feast for the eyes. Paprika was one of the main influences behind the movie Inception and it definitely shows. Some parts really get you thinking.
However there are some sequences in the film that are just meh . Even though the movie was a strange one, I consistently found myself wanting it to be more strange. Like the strange parts were so strange and interesting that when it went back to something normal it just seemed lacking in comparison.
While Paprika has its lows, I believe that the highs more than make up for it. If you have a nice multimedia set-up, definitely check this one out. I have the feeling that it just wouldn't be the same on a small screen with dinky speakers.
Do you have epilepsy? Yes? Don't watch this movie. You will have seizures. Over and over. And over and over again.
If you don't have epilepsy, you're in luck (and not just because you don't have epilepsy). Dead Leaves is a great movie and a wild crazy ride. From the beginning it's a nonstop action adventure with more gore and comic relief than you can shake a drill at.
The two main characters awaken naked with no recollection of their past. They are soon thrown in jail where they discover more about their origins and the world they live in and subsequently devise a plan to break on outta there.
Dead Leaves is easily one of the goriest animes I have ever seen. And that's saying a lot. But somehow, even though it's incredibly brutal, every time someone was injured or killed I found it absolutely hilarious. (Is that bad?)
Dead Leaves is just fun. It's such a fun movie. And with a run-time of only 52 minutes there's absolutely no excuse not to check this one out.
When I first saw the trailer for this movie, I thought it was a joke. That should give you an idea of how ridiculous this movie is. I'm sure after you watch the trailer you'll agree with me.
In Robo Geisha, girls are recruited into an elite fighting force where women alter parts of their bodies to become perfect killing machines. Plot twists ensue, and eventually all of Japan is in danger of being wiped off the face of the earth.
Robo Geisha is very over the top with most of the action and fighting being played out in very strange ways. We've got armpit katanas, robo geisha tanks, and tengu milk just to name a few implements of destruction. If you've got an afternoon to kill, you could certainly do worse than Robo Geisha.
Rampo Noir is a collection of four short stories brought to life on film. If I could give you a plot summary, I would. This movie is super weird and words just fail me here.
I'm not really sure how I feel about this movie. It's… different. I think this is the only movie on this list that I would refuse to watch again. I think once would be enough for anybody.
But hey! Tadanobu Asano's in it. He makes everything better.
This movie. Wow. I don't even know where to begin. This movie will make your jaw hit the floor, and before you can pick it back up, your jaw hits the floor again. How is that possible? I have no idea. This movie is insane. There's absolutely no doubt that this movie should be at the top of anyone's list of strange movies, Japanese or otherwise.
This is one of those movies that I simply can't put into words. You don't just watch Tetsuo, you experience Tetsuo. Just watch the trailer, okay? You'll see what I mean.
And there you have it – ten of the strangest Japanese films I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. I am sure there are many other viable candidates for the list (Funky Forest, for example) but I didn't want to include anything here that I hadn't actually viewed myself.

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Holy Japanese manga, fans of “The Strain,” we very nearly had us some honest-to-gawd tentacle porn.
Because I’m a geeky superfan and I always watch the shows a few days ahead, I’ve had time to ruminate over this episode of the hit FX thriller, dubbed “Dead End.”
It’s done nothing to calm my nerves. I’m still feverish and shuddering – and, sure, melodramatic -- and it’s safe to say that I’ll continue convulsing every time I think of the scene between the shackled, half-naked Dutch Velders (Ruta Gedmintas) and her tormentor-captor Thomas Eichhorst (the never-more-diabolical Richard Sammel).
In fact, I don’t know if or when I’ll ever be able to scrub that image from my brain. Here’s the shorthand: Eichhorst is on the verge of raping Dutch with his 6-foot-long strigoi stinger, and he’s positively glowing and gloating about it. He’s shut down only because Dutch has found some Mace and sprays it in his eyes as a hail Mary.
I don’t need to repeat any of this, do I? Please don’t make me.
Trying to take the emotion out for just a second, I have questions. Is this Eichhorst’s revenge for a decades-old snub by the only woman he ever loved? How long has he been planning this? Or is it a spur-of-the-moment thing? Is this his ultimate middle finger, so to speak, to the human resistance? Is it simply his fallback or is it the most degrading act of violence he can purposely conjure?
Then again, why am I surprised that Eichhorst is a sexual sadist? Nazi SS commander, concentration camp overlord, child killer – the dude ticks off a lot of psycho-sociopathic boxes.
I guess I just didn’t anticipate this particular assault, stunningly shot as it was. I don’t know when I’ve seen anything quite as disturbing (not on premium cable).
The scene serves a few purposes, as far as our twisted overarching story goes. It reinforces everything we know about Eichhorst – no one was confused up to this point, right? -- but also adds a new level of depravity to his character.
Unfortunately, it continues to demonize our erstwhile hero, Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll). He’s gone from healer and scientist to murderer, sniper and all-around terrible friend.
If he hadn’t hatched a half-baked plan to gun down Eldritch Palmer (Jonathan Hyde) and used Dutch as his wingman, she wouldn’t have fallen into Eichhorst’s clutches. (Truth be told, it appears that some corrupt cops handed her over after she was arrested with Eph).
Never mind – it’s his fault that she ends up in the White Room of Pain wearing a metal collar and fighting for her life.
And Nora says as much with one withering stare. Dutch is rescued by the end of the hour – mostly because Fet loves her and never goes anywhere without pockets full of dynamite and silver-filled grenades these days – and Nora (Mia Maestro) shoots a look at Eph that’s meant to cut to the quick.
Oh Eph, you are a lost and misguided soul.
Will this energize the Scoobies or will it splinter them? How can they ever trust Eph again or value his judgment?
Small aside: If you’re not familiar with Japanese tentacle porn, congratulations! It’s a thing, I swear. Anthony Bourdain gives a safe-for-TV description of the graphically violent subgenre on a recent episode of “Parts Unknown” set in Tokyo. Or there’s the source: a comic book creator named Toshio Maeda. Look him up. You’re welcome, pervs.
On to the down-and-dirty details of “Dead End,” during which Setrakian loses the Occido Lumen – for real this time? – and Gus and Angel gird themselves for the good fight.
Professor and vampire hunter Abraham Setrakian (David Bradley) has been searching for the Lumen for most of his adult life. This ancient text is supposed to contain the answers that he desperately needs – i.e., how to rid the world of the strigoi contagion and kill the Master.
Does it? We don’t know, and neither does Setrakian. He had the silver-bound book in his paws, briefly, but Rudyard Fonescu swiped it back. The two are having a bit of a face-off in Fonescu’s dumpy Washington Heights apartment, with Setrakian duct taped to a chair and Fonescu prattling on about funding a trip to Tahiti.
Setrakian, with the Ancients as his financial backers, offers to pay any price for the Lumen. But try as he might, with all his “fate of humankind is in your hands” and “I saved your life” speechifying, he can’t talk Fonescu into a sale.
But there’s someone who manages to do just that. Alonso Creem, the mercenary street thug, says he thinks he “can do business” with the book’s handler.
Fonescu thinks he’s selling to the highest bidder? He’s an idiot who’s lucky someone hasn’t ended him already over that dusty old tome. What are his odds today, now that he’s on Creem’s heavily fortified turf on Roosevelt Island with his hand out? I say don’t count on that tropical getaway.
Creem will re-sell the Lumen, no doubt, but to whom?
Elsewhere in the hour, I’m glad to see Gus (Miguel Gomez) back but I don’t care so much about his girlfriend or her family’s escape from New York. His goodbye shag with Aanya does give us a nice view of his ripped torso and the King of Kings tattoo across his shoulder blades. So, thanks for that.
What we lose in the Guptas (not much), we gain in Angel (Joaquin Cosio). There’s been nothing for his beloved-from-the-books character to do so far except wash dishes and talk smack. Here’s hoping this is the beginning of his action phase. He and Gus are about to join forces with Quinlan to battle the Master. That should be popcorn-worthy.
So back to Dutch. She’s chained up in a stark, padded room with Eichhorst taunting, beating and fetishizing her. The red lipstick? The pineapple slices? It’s all too horrible.
He sucks the life out of a cop to further terrorize her, then snaps the guy’s neck and leaves him dead on the floor of the cell. (That’s where Dutch finds her Mace-like weapon).
Flashbacks tell us that Eichhorst is a lowly door-to-door radio salesman in Germany in 1931, and a poor one at that, until he finds his muse in the budding Nazi party. At his dreary day job, he mistakenly thinks he’s made a love connection with the beautiful young Helga, but his anti-Semitism and her Jewishness don’t meld.
She calls him a loser for spouting Hitlerisms, and he counters the insult by lying about her later during a Nazi interrogation. Of course that doesn’t end well – Helga and her parents are hanged -- but Eichhorst stays silent to protect his political position.
As he’s been from the beginning of the series, Sammel is masterful in this episode, both in the period pieces and the current day. Too bad genre shows rarely if ever get Emmy nominations. He really should be an exception.
Nora, Eph and Vasiliy Fet (Kevin Durand) go frantically hunting for Dutch at the Mayfield Hotel, where they’ve been told she is imprisoned. Fet, a font of information about New York architecture and history, realizes they need to go underground to an old subway tunnel to get to the uber-creepy walled-off section of the hotel.
They’re making progress when they hear Dutch’s screams. She’s managed to maim Eichhorst temporarily, just as he’s unfurled his stinger. She gets out of the cell but finds only bricked-up exits in her attempts to flee captivity.
Eichhorst, stunned but not stopped, catches her and starts dragging her back to the torture chamber by her feet. Enter Fet with his rebar, cracking through bricks and blasting with explosives. He tosses a silver grenade, Eichhorst dodges it, and Dutch breaks free.
A traumatized Dutch leaps into Fet’s arms, and the Scoobies retreat.
Two more episodes, fellow fans. Where will they take us?
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Almost since its beginning, Japanese cinema entailed themes, characters and motifs that occasionally surpassed even the borders of the surreal. Moreover, even if the rest of the world usually disdains them as bizarre and incoherent, local filmmakers have continued shooting them, chiefly because they appeal to the character and idiosyncrasy of the Japanese people.
However, a number of them have reached audiences outside the country, largely due to the enlargement of cult audiences in recent decades, thus resulting in a large number of similar releases in the west.
The following list contains 20 of them, in random order.
1. Survival Style 5+ (Gen Sekiguchi, 2004)
The utterly absurd script consists of five stories that intermingle. Aman repeatedly kills his wife and buries her in the woods. However, each time he returns to his house he finds her there, attacking him with kung fu techniques.
Yoko, an advertising executive, perpetually records her ideas on a tape recorder; nevertheless, the ideas do not seem to impress her clients nor her lover, Aoyama, who is a hypnotist. An international assassin-for-hire who’s fixed on asking “what’s your purpose in life” gets commissioned by an office to kill Aoyama, after a request made by Yoko.
Kobayashi, a white-collar employee, attends Aoyama’s show along with his family. He gets hypnotized voluntarily, posing as a bird; however, the assassin kills Aoyama before he wakes him up and Kobayasi continues acting as if he was an actual bird. A gang of three crooks roams the city stealing, and it seems that a peculiar relationship brews between two of them.
Both the director, Gen Sekiguchi and the scriptwriter, Taku Tada, made their debut with this particular film, since their previous works were almost exclusively music videos. The fact mirrors in the aesthetics of “Survival Style 5+” that sometimes are similar to a music video and sometimes to an anime; the pace is rather fast, the colors are particularly vivid, the humor abysmal, and the absurdity omnipresent.
Furthermore, the script is quite incoherent; however, it is well structured and one of the adva
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