Japanese Cult Films Essay

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30 Lesser Known Japanese Cult Films That Are Worth Your Time
Japan is probably the country with the most cult films in the world, a fact that could be attributed to the following reasons:
1. Artistic tradition, particularly the ero-guro movement.
2. History, with the violent transition from the samurai era to the contemporary one, and the nightmare caused by the aftermath of the atomic bomb.
3. The tolerance and even pleasure that they draw from preposterous and onerous productions.
With cult films becoming more and more popular globally, during the last decades, a plethora of previously unknown productions has become known through festivals and media releases. However, even in a category that is considered underground by nature, there are …show more content…

In that fashion, he included some S&M elements, prolonged philosophical dialogues in Tarantino’s style, anime-like characters and even dildo-guns, in a film that looks like an insane odyssey as the couple is hunted through Japan.
2. Murder on D Street (Akio Jissoji, 1998)
The script of the film is a combination of two short stories by Edokawa Rampo, "Case of the Murder on D – Slope" and " The Psychological Test." The owner of Suiko-Do, a bookstore, asks from Fukiya, a legendary art forger to make copies of paintings by Shundei Ohe, an artist who painted portraits of women being tortured and whose lines were considered impossible to be copied.
Using a trick, Fukiya manages to deliver, but the owner asks for more, this time without providing originals but assigning a girl to him in order to use her as a model.
A bit later, the owner is found dead and Saito, a clerk at the shop is accused of her murder. After the police's initial investigation, legendary detective Kogoro Akechi appears at the police station to solve the

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