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Desu pawuda

  • 1986
  • 1h 3m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
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Desu pawuda (1986)
HorrorSci-Fi

Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever.Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever.Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever.

  • Director
    • Shigeru Izumiya
  • Writer
    • Shigeru Izumiya
  • Stars
    • Shigeru Izumiya
    • Takichi Inukai
    • Rikako Murakami
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    393
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Shigeru Izumiya
    • Writer
      • Shigeru Izumiya
    • Stars
      • Shigeru Izumiya
      • Takichi Inukai
      • Rikako Murakami
    • 9User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Shigeru Izumiya
    • Harima
    Takichi Inukai
    Rikako Murakami
    • Norris
    Mari Natsuki
    • Guernica
    Kiyoshirô Imawano
    • Dr. Loo
    Tamio Kageyama
    Kôichi Satô
    Kôichi Satô
    • Director
      • Shigeru Izumiya
    • Writer
      • Shigeru Izumiya
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    8Food

    Bizarre and Disjointed

    This film is hyped as being in the same sub-genus of film as Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' or Shozin Fukui's '964 Pinocchio.' It is, however not as focussed or crafted as either of those films. Still, it warrants a degree of attention.

    The story, as I understand it: Three conspirators steal a secret android. In their warehouse hideout, the android secretes a reality-altering substance, which casts them into a frightening nether-world of interconnected subjectivity.

    Meanwhile, in the real world, workers enter the warehouse, only to find that the occupants within have mutated into a huge, protoplasmic organism.

    Some aspects of this film are more successful than others. The protoplasm being is great, it reminds me of some kind of Kroft-type Saturday morning special effect creature gone really, really wrong. On the other hand an extended montage of stills to ironically loungy music badly overstays it's welcome.

    Still, it all seems in good fun; during one of the hallucination sequences, the scientist who designed the android is revealed in a bizarre music video sequence---as a singer for an 80s hair-band.
    10polysicsarebest

    Mindblowing

    This film is a one of a kind gem. If you want to see what Pinnochio 964, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Meatball Machine, Electric Dragon 80000v, Rubber's Lover (etc., etc., etc...) would be like if they were even MORE insane... then, here's your movie.

    Combining extremely bizarre and nightmarish imagery (ever seen an image of a gigantic eyeball from a slime monster superimposed over a bizarre doorway that sorta looks like it was made from line-drawing?) with a noisey soundtrack and TONS of surrealism and just an overall bizarre atmosphere, this is one of the best films I've ever seen. Really, it's the epitome of a perfect film: Never gets boring, a perfect length, and you'll always find something new to love every time you watch it.

    I've noticed in recent years, there's been a renewed interest in this film. Hopefully I will live to see the day when this will officially be released on DVD in America. This is a lost classic, to be certain, and there's certainly an audience for it (albiet a small, art-house audience.. there's still an audience). Whatever means you can do to find yourself a copy of this now, though, don't hesitate to do it, especially if you're concerned with cinema that places emphasis on weird visuals over a coherent story. There, uh, isn't really that much of a story to speak of, I think, but that doesn't matter. There's so many weird parts in this film you won't mind (what's the deal with the random mosaiced faces?). Love it.
    Eviljomr

    Bizarre

    Hands down, the most bizarre film I have ever seen. Makes Lost Highway look like an exercise in coherent storytelling. I've watched it about ten times, and I still don't know what the hell it's about. I don't know what else to say about it.
    godless savage

    Sort of a Japanese "Eraserhead", but makes less sense.

    Definitely one of the most funked up movies I've seen, I rented this one at a Japanese video store, so there were no subtitles or dubbing. I don't think it would have helped anyway, there's really little dialogue, and I think this is primarily intended to enhance altered mindsets more than anything, if there is a plot here, it's minimal at best.

    Anyway, I love this film, it's just so bizarre and out there, I've watched it 3 times, I still have no concept whatsoever of the point. A couple of people break into a building, there's some sort of creature there, then your thrust into some mind bending alternate universe, or maybe it's the creatures mind, or maybe it just injects the humans with some drug that makes them have some intense death trip, I don't know. This goes on for a while, very cheaply done, but using lots of dated, cheap, but effective camera and editing tricks to really mess with your mind. There's some blood and gore here too. Then, out of nowhere, we have some bizarre music video, shot outside, that slowly slides back into the dingy, grim world of slime and blood and hallucinoegins we were in before. After a while, the movie seems to end, but wait! It's not over yet, after the fadeout, strange noises and barely perceptible images fade back in, and we have a few more minutes of unintelligible weirdness. This is all accomponied by some very strange sounds and music, I'd love to have the "score" for this, it goes a long way in making the movie even more messed up.

    Anyway, if you love really, really bizarre "artistic" films, seek this one out, though there's no U.S. release I know of.
    8HumanoidOfFlesh

    Supremely bizarre and hallucinogenic cyberpunk nightmare.

    A humanoid female is kept tied up in a decrepit basement and several unknown groups of people seem to be interested in this creature.When the creature blows dust on some intruders,it sends them off to another world and gives them deep understanding of...something or another to do with rising above the limitations of flesh.These various parties fight it out amongst themselves,some turning out to be more than human."Death Powder" is an total hallucinogenic mindtrip.It's filled with scenes of horror and gore and several moments of a wall-to-wall surrealism.It's really hard to objectively summarize its plot,it's so strange and trippy.If you enjoyed "Tetsuo" or "964 Pinocchio" give "Death Powder" a look.

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    • Release date
      • June 21, 1986 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Death Powder
    • Production companies
      • Essen Communications
      • Media Mix Japan Company (MMJ)
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      1 hour 3 minutes
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