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Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands

“Every day at 3 o’clock I’ve been killing you in my daydreams,” murmurs low-rent hitman Shô (Yûichi Minato), haunted by the death of his girlfriend five years earlier and seeking revenge on the gangster who killed her...

Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands
Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands

Time & Location

Mar 05, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Bok Auditorium, 800 Mifflin St, Philadelphia, PA 19148, USA

About the Event

“Every day at 3 o’clock I’ve been killing you in my daydreams,” murmurs low-rent hitman Shô (Yûichi Minato), haunted by the death of his girlfriend five years earlier and seeking revenge on the gangster who killed her, in director/writer Atsushi Yamatoya’s eerie, seedy and dreamlike noir with fractured, time-bending overtones of John Boorman’s Point Blank and Christopher Nolan’s Memento. Yamatoya co-wrote Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill (released the same year as this), and the films are companion pieces in many ways: subversive and jarring with strange flashbacks, inexplicable dialogue and song lyrics (“My burning dumdum goes flying, bites the enemy’s neck”), inserts that shatter the fourth wall, and a dissonant free jazz score. Produced by Keiko Satô, one of the few female producers in the underground Japanese pink film genre, the absurdly-titled Inflatable Sex Doll is comparable to similar movies by American erotic auteurs Russ Meyer (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!…

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