Kyoko Hara, Onn Chan, Hage Suzuki, Koji Kita, Ranyaku Mikutei
Frequently compared to maverick Japanese experimentalist Shinya Tsukamoto's hyperkinetic cyberpunk masterpiece Tetsuo: The Iron Man, director Shozin Fukui's Pinocchio 964 weaves the dark tale of a cyb... read more 
DVD Release Date: December 28, 2004
Stats: 81 reviews
Interesting work, not essentially horror, but horrific enough in statement and in execution to warrant a look. A forerunner of Spielberg and Kubrick's A.I. as well, in an odd sense. Explosions of blood and vomit from characters' orifices lead to a suitably fluid-spattered final... read more
Amateurish and aimless student-film type, it has everything from vomiting scenes to enough latex-dressed characters to give the Wachowski brothers a hard one. Too bad it doesn't have anything else that could be worth a check.
I enjoyed Rubber's Lover by the same filmmaker (or at least I think I did), but this one is kind of lousy. There's potential, but there's also too many freakout scenes that go on for way too long. A more competent editor could've definitely trimmed this movie down a lot...
Pinocchio 964, lobotomised cyborg sex slave, is thrown out onto the street by his owners because of his inability to maintain an erection. He is befriended by a criminally insane, memory-wiped, homeless girl. Meanwhile, the corporate entity who manufactured and sold him plots to ... read more
It has an interesting premise, but it could have been carried out better. Specifically there are shots or scenes that go on WAY too long without much happening or changing in them, like one unnecessarily long sequence of the female protagonist stumbling around vomiting after she... read more
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