the audience applauded

Sick Product of a Sick System

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Pinocchio 964 is about a woman puking and a guy screaming. And just like modern art, it is garbage no one wants to see unless your IQ is below ignoramus level. The metamorphosis stuff is the only thing that stands out but all the screaming was annoying as hell and endless puking was meaningless and stupid.

I saw this movie at Best Buy, and remembered it being an unearthed films release. I still wasn't going to buy it until I flipped it over and saw a picture of a white faced, bleeding from the mouth, freak running down the streets with a few thousand confused people looking on. Knowing that those people weren't extras, I had to buy this movie.This movie is pure insanity. At first It looks like it might be somewhat normal, everything makes sense, it seems almost cute...almost...Suddenly the whole movie takes a turn for the "worst" and all that wholesomeness we just witnessed turns into something completely opposite. A lot of people compare this movie to Tetsuo for some reason, which is like comparing apples to oranges, but that being said, 964 Pinocchio will make you appreciate Tetsuos coherent storyline. As insane as that may sound.I don't want to mention, nor could I fully explain the plot, because that would ruin most of this movie. if your sick of your everyday Hollywood remakes and want a totally new experience, and like a bit of wackiness mixed in with your bizarre freak out films, than you will love this unique movie.

Easily one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen, and it owes much in style to Tsukamoto Shin'ya's blistering "Tetsuo." Yeah, it's gross, but it's so over-the-top that you can't help but have fun witnessing it. Grab your buddies and some alcohol, and boom, it's gonna be a blast.The plot is simple, so you can involve yourself in the weirdness that infests these characters. Poor Pinocchio...I feel this twisted up sometimes, and he lets me know I'm not alone.Also, check out "Rubber's Lover," the b&w demi-prequel. Fear of dehumanization is the deepest, and these films look that fear square in the fight-or-fight reflex!

This is one of my favorite films. It seems to deal with a society in which people have been made into commodities, and it focuses on principal characters who have become discarded.Rather than take a heavy handed or moralistic stance, Shozin Fukui brings a strangely restrained humor and an extreme, hysterical weirdness to the story. Along with Shinya Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' it is one of the classics of Japanese mutation film. (It is said that Fukui actually worked on 'Tetsuo.')The cinematography is amazing, ranging from ponderous and Tarkovsky-like to accelerated stop-motion.The performers are wonderful and likeable. Hage Suzuki is like a spastic butoh performer having a constant seizure. Onn-Chan's amazing face seems to have been genetically grown for the specific purpose of being viewed by wide-angle lenses. (Where did these people come from and why is it hard to find any information on them?!)As an added bonus, this film has what has been touted as the most prolonged vomiting sequence in cinema history.