GHOST'S LOVER (Yang Chuan, 1987)
One of my favorite discoveries of 2015, this spectral soap opera by Yang Chuan aka Richard Yeung Kuen can be summarized as follows: "A woman gets seduced and impregnated by a handsome ghost and then desperately attempts to abort the baby at a spiritually significant time and place."
SUKEBAN DEKA (Hideo Tanaka, 1987)
From the late Hideo Tanaka, a live-action manga adaptation about female high school detectives who must defeat an evil headmaster - long thought to be dead - before he can successfully brainwash all of the students into becoming an army of fascist robots on a place inexplicably known as Hell's Island. Viewed against its comparatively cartoonish tokusatsu brethren, SUKEBAN DEKA manages to achieve a balance between its most gruesome moments of torture and lobotomization with the outlandish premise that leads to helicopters being blown up by a deadly weaponized yo-yo. In its way, a perfect film.

WORLD GONE WILD (Lee H. Katzin, 1987)
The bastard offspring of MAD MAX and other better known post-apocalyptic rip-offs, WORLD GONE WILD is a silly, self-aware wasteland wonder that fits into that category of appreciation known as "party movie." It is unimaginatively photographed, a bit meandering in terms of its plot, but it never stops being absolute fun. And weird. Supremely weird. Bruce Dern in perhaps his most autobiographical role. And, while I wouldn't have believed it a decade or more back, Adam Ant in his.

FRIENDSHIP'S DEATH (Peter Wollen, 1987)
A small film of big ideas. Tilda Swinton is perfectly cast as Friendship, a robot emissary sent to Earth on a - largely ambiguous, although genuine - peace mission. Heady and philosophical, you could easily re-title this film MY DINNER WITH ANDROID. Not particularly accessible, in form or content, but - to those precious few who elect to seek it out and embrace it - sincerely rewarding.
From the late Hideo Tanaka, a live-action manga adaptation about female high school detectives who must defeat an evil headmaster - long thought to be dead - before he can successfully brainwash all of the students into becoming an army of fascist robots on a place inexplicably known as Hell's Island. Viewed against its comparatively cartoonish tokusatsu brethren, SUKEBAN DEKA manages to achieve a balance between its most gruesome moments of torture and lobotomization with the outlandish premise that leads to helicopters being blown up by a deadly weaponized yo-yo. In its way, a perfect film.

WORLD GONE WILD (Lee H. Katzin, 1987)
The bastard offspring of MAD MAX and other better known post-apocalyptic rip-offs, WORLD GONE WILD is a silly, self-aware wasteland wonder that fits into that category of appreciation known as "party movie." It is unimaginatively photographed, a bit meandering in terms of its plot, but it never stops being absolute fun. And weird. Supremely weird. Bruce Dern in perhaps his most autobiographical role. And, while I wouldn't have believed it a decade or more back, Adam Ant in his.

FRIENDSHIP'S DEATH (Peter Wollen, 1987)
A small film of big ideas. Tilda Swinton is perfectly cast as Friendship, a robot emissary sent to Earth on a - largely ambiguous, although genuine - peace mission. Heady and philosophical, you could easily re-title this film MY DINNER WITH ANDROID. Not particularly accessible, in form or content, but - to those precious few who elect to seek it out and embrace it - sincerely rewarding.
THREE BEWILDERED PEOPLE IN THE NIGHT (Gregg Araki, 1987)
A no-budget, angst-ridden student feature from Gregg Araki and, coincidentally, a microcosm of his career-long obsessions with aesthetic aimlessness, great electronic soundtrack compilations, and the pursuit of sex in all its glorious and violent forms. It all starts here. Spare, but spectacular.
A no-budget, angst-ridden student feature from Gregg Araki and, coincidentally, a microcosm of his career-long obsessions with aesthetic aimlessness, great electronic soundtrack compilations, and the pursuit of sex in all its glorious and violent forms. It all starts here. Spare, but spectacular.
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