Rubber's Lover

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name = Rubber's Lover


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director = Shozin Fukui
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writer = Shozin Fukui
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starring = Nao
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released = 1996
runtime = 91 min.
country = Japan
language = Japanese
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imdb_id = 0227408

"Rubber's Lover" is cult filmmaker Shozin Fukui's 1996 follow-up to "964 Pinocchio". Like its predecessor, it is an underground cyberpunk horror, with tense atmosphere, alarming visuals and graphic violence.

Rubber's Lover acts as a semi-prequel to 964 Pinocchio, and 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.

Rubber's Lover can best be defined as Japanese cyberpunk and industrial noir, in the same vein as . Filmed in stark black and white, located in a setting of grim urban steel, steeped in machine aesthetic, driven by a kinetic style and empowered by a grinding metallic soundtrack, it draws on nightmarish horror and generates heavy fetishcore themes.

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*imdb title|id=0227408|title=Rubber's Lover
* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rubbers_lover/about.php Review at rottentomatoes]