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| Rubber's Lover | |
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| Directed by | Shozin Fukui |
| Written by | Shozin Fukui |
| Starring | Nao Ameya |
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| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Rubber's Lover (ラバーズ・ラバー) is a 1996 black and white Japanese cyberpunk-horror film written and directed by Shozin Fukui (best known for 964 Pinocchio)
Premise
Often interpreted as a prequel to 964 Pinocchio, Rubber's Lover details a clandestine group of scientists who conduct psychic experiments on human guinea-pigs that they take from the streets. Using brain-altering drugs, sensory deprivation and computer interfaces, they subject their patients to gruesome scientific tortures that often end in brutal death. After continued failure and pressure from the company to cancel the project, they pursue one last experiment using one of their own as a test subject – yielding dangerous results.
Production
Fukui started preparing Rubber's Lover right after the release of 964 Pinocchio and it took five years for it to complete. During filming, the crew were prohibited to speak in a way the actors could feel separated.
Similar works
Like Tetsuo: The Iron Man, it is filmed in stark black and white and set in a decayed postindustrial city. Like that film, it utilizes horror imagery.
References
- Player, Mark. "Post-Human Nightmares: The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema". Midnight Eye. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
- "Midnight Eye interview: Shozin Fukui". www.midnighteye.com. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
External links
- Rubber's Lover at IMDb
- Rubber's Lover at rottentomatoes
- Rubber's Lover Rubber’s Lover at horrordrome.com
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