Rubber's Lover

Rubber's Lover (ラバーズ・ラバー) is cult filmmaker Shozin Fukui's 1996 follow-up to 964 Pinocchio. Like its predecessor, it is an underground Japanese cyberpunk film, shot in black and white.

Rubber's Lover
Directed byShozin Fukui
Written byShozin Fukui
StarringNao Ameya
Release date
  • 1996 (1996)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Premise

Often interpreted as a prequel to 964 Pinocchio,[1] Rubber's Lover 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.

Similar works

Like Tetsuo: The Iron Man, it is filmed in stark black and white and set in a decayed postindustrial city. Like that film, it utilizes horror imagery.

References
  1. Player, Mark. "Post-Human Nightmares: The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema". Midnight Eye. Retrieved 8 August 2011.


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