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Mood:
- AtmosphericSuspensefulScaryBleakOffbeatRoughStylizedMind Bending
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Plot:
- HostagesExperiment Gone AwryFuture DystopiaDangerImaginaryMind and SoulSupernaturalDisorder more...
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Genres:
- HorrorForeignExperimentalFantasySci-Fi
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- Laboratory
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- SeriousFantastic
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Look:
- B&W
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Rubber's Lover, 1996
Japanese
Japan
Profile of Rubber's Lover
Rubber's Lover can be described as atmospheric, scary, and suspenseful. The plot revolves around hostages, a future dystopia, and an experiment gone awry. The main genres are foreign, horror, and sci-fi. In terms of style, Rubber's Lover is experimental. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It is set, at least in part, in a laboratory. Rubber's Lover takes place in the 1990s. Visually, it is black and white.
Summary of Rubber's Lover
Shozin Fukui, director of PINOCCHIO 964, followed up that film with a prequel of sorts, entitled RUBBER'S LOVER. A secret corporation has decided to stop funding a series of experiments in psychic powers being undertaken by a group of unscrupulous scientists. Subjecting a number of human guinea pigs to sensory deprivation and connection to a powerful hard drive has resulted in horrible death and little success every time. Desperate for one last attempt, the scientists break into the lab and try one last experiment on a colleague. This time they succeed, but also with disastrous and unintended results. RUBBER'S LOVER is shot in grainy black and white, accentuating the grimy industrial setting where the horror takes place. The surroundings are merely one element exploring the themes of claustrophobia and isolation in the film, which takes its place alongside TETSUO: THE IRON MAN in the annals of Japanese cyberpunk horror.
Details
| Language: | Japanese |
| Country: | Japan |
| Release date: | 28 September 1996 |
| Runtime: | 91 min |
Cast and Crew
as Kiku
as Hitotsubashi
as Shimika
as Akari
