964 PINOCCHIO (1991)
The realm of extreme cinema can pose of lot of unusual questions, but in the case of 964 Pinocchio it’s mainly ‘how much is too much?’ How much convulsing and puking does it take to compete with Zulawski’s Possession? How many weird metaphors will it take to top the work of Shinya Tsukamoto? The director, Shozin Fukui, worked on the latter in the late 1980s and clearly had these references in mind when putting together this gruelling mixture of guerilla film-making and cyberpunk nightmare fuel. Clearly his instinct was that more is more, so let’s take a look at how much of the final product works as a story.
