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Rubber's Lover
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Wikipedia article
is cult filmmaker Shozin Fukui's 1996 follow-up to '964 Pinocchio'. Like its predecessor, it is an underground Japanese cyberpunk film, shot in black and white.
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 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, they pursue one last project - which yields dangerous results.
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.
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