35TH ANNIVERSARY of this super rare screening of late Shozin Fuki's cyberpunk masterpiece !

CELEBRATING THE ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE LATE SHOZIN FUKUI

+ HIS SHORT FILM: Gerorisuto (ゲロリスト),

A memory-wiped sex-slave cyborg is discarded by his owners and left to wander the streets of Tokyo. Unable to speak or to remember what he is He is found and taken in by a mentally unstable homeless lady called Himiko.

— a woman on the edge of total psychological collapse — whose anguish eventually explodes into something beyond language. Shot on grainy video with a ferocious, assault-on-the-senses energy,

Shozin Fukui's debut is Japanese cyberpunk at its most extreme: a film about bodies pushed past endurance, about the violence done by systems to those they discard, and about what gets left behind.

Overwhelmingly kinetic film with incredible industrial sound design, promises to be unlike anything else you will see this year!

Certificate 18. Running time: 97 mins.

2k restoration.

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FLESH, DESIRE, RUIN

Paraphysis Cinema's thread at Scalarama Festival!

also including:

HOTEL (2001)

DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (1971)

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SCALARAMA LIVERPOOL IS BACK!

This October, a month long DIY film festival presented by 8 clubs of the Liverpool DIY Cinema Collective takes place across the city. Find us in cafes, music and arts venues, a grand hotel, even a laundrette! Bringing you carefully selected films for the time of year when darkness is starting to creep in. Transgressive, political, comedic, liminal, the popular and the rarely screened; come be a part of this celebration of cinema!

Check out our line up here: https://scalaramaliverpool.co.uk

Scalarama Liverpool is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.

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