Akarui mirai (2003) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
aka: Bright future, Jellyfish

Mamoru (Tadanobu Asanu), sentenced to death after killing the entire family of his boss, gives away his pet jellyfish into the caring hands of his best friend and working colleague Yûji (Jô Odagiri). The cute baby creature, especially raised and trained to live in sweet water, soon finds its poisoning freedom and fertile happiness in the canals in and around Tokyo, while Yûji himself starts a new life with the help and love of Mamoru’s father.

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The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio (1971) by Eric Jeffrey Haims

Four sided triangle (1953) by Terence Fisher

Lena (Barbara Payton), the queen of hearts of the two scientists and inventors Bill and Robin unfortunately has only place for one of them. In love and despair, a broken-hearted Bill (Stephen Murray) sees his only chance in getting the woman of his life by creating her himself. And what could be more appropriate than the recently invented duplicating machine…

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Môjuu (1969) by Yasuzo Masumura
aka: Blind Beast

To accomplish his delirious sculpture garden of the female body, blind artist Michio (Eiji Funakoshi) doesn’t feel any other chance than to kidnap young model Aki (Mako Midori), whose beautyful skin his restless fingertips have been longing for already a long time ago. Understandably upset about her situation, Aki tries everything to get out of the peculiar environment, when she slowly realises that somehow her senses get stronger than the desire to escape.

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Frenzy (1972) by Alfred Hitchcock

Whilst the notorious neck tie murderer strangles franticly and unseen one neck after the other and accidently interferes with the upcoming cleaning comission of the river Thames, our innocent suspect Richard Blaney struggles hard to hide away from the police. The air gets short, when also Blaney’s only friend gets decorated with some rather deadly than nice sample of a tie, and a horrible suspicion arises.

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Welt am Draht aka World on a wire directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Available with English subtitles.

A television series in two parts.
Running time: 205 minutes.
Based on a novel by Daniel F. Galouye.

IKZ – Institute for Kybernetik and Zukunftsforschung. Fred Stiller (Klaus Löwitsch) finds himself caught and trapped between the worlds, when his friend and colleague Professor Henry Vollmer (Adrian Hoven) suddenly dies, leaving behind nothing but inexplainable mysteries regarding his death and their shared computer model Simulacron One. His confusion increases as several people of his close environment start to disappear without any trace and Stiller seems to be the only one to notice or even remember them at all. Tormented by heavy nauseas and strange hallucinations he won’t give up to disclose the dangerously lurking secret behind the blurry curtains, called reality.

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Perfume, the story of a murderer (2006) by Tom Tykwer

Secretly born and left unwanted underneath a muddy medieval fish market stall, little Jean Baptiste (Ben Wishaw) gets (r)ejected to a wide range of very unpleasant odeurs as well as to all bad and bitterness in the world. Trained to survive through years of slavery, the grown up, urged by his unique and sensational nasal senses, eventually escapes his dark destiny to explore and conquer the world of the unknown but long desired abstract beauty…rrrrpüh

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Yeogo goedam II (1999) by Tae-Yong Kim, Kyu-Dong Min
aka: Memento Mori

The second day a girl dies
with her legs hacked off
perhaps she came too close to truth

The third day a girl dies
with her ears cut off
perhaps she heard the truth

The fourth day a girl dies
with her eyes gouged out
perhaps she had seen the truth

The fifth day a girl dies
with her tongue pulled out
perhaps she had spoken the truth

The sixth day a girl dies
with her hands chopped off
perhaps she had written the truth

The seventh day a girl is going to die
Perhaps…

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Kuya (1997) by Kiyoshi Kurasawa
aka: Cure

Kenichi Takabe (Kôji Yakushi) once again sees himself confronted with a tough case to resolve. Gruesome murders are committed in and around Tokyo, but strangely and unlike his other cases the killers don’t make any efforts to hide away, but stick somehow disturbed but close to their victim frankly admitting everything they’ve done. Something smells not quite right.

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Trouble every day (2001) by Claire Denis
aka: Gargoyle

And there’s trouble every day
There’s trouble every day
There’s trouble every day
There’s trouble every day

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