Black Lizard

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Audience Member One of the best of the Japanese martial arts genre; look fast for playwright Yukio Mishima in a cameo. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member awesome kitsch 60's japanese detective film Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Disney, Japanese new wave, noir. In other words: weird, vaguely musical and great! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Black Lizard is easily one of the weirdest films I've ever seen. It starts off like a noir Kabuki pantomime version of Murder on the Orient Express, with a dash of Hammer Horror and House of Wax thrown in. At times, it is 'high art' and at others, quite trashy. The plot reads like a crazed pervert's fantasy, yet as it plays out it is surprisingly almost mainstream and watchable in a Japanese kind of way. It's never boring, but certainly not for everyone. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Kitsch 60's Japanese detective film directed by Kinji Fukasaku (BATTLE ROYALE) based on a theatrical adaptation of a 1934 novel by Yukio Mishima (cf MISHIMA) who incidently plays a stuffed human in the film and was the lover of Akihiro Maruyama who's in drag playing the cunning female criminal "Black Lizard" while Kogoro Akechi (one of the SEVEN SAMURAI) is the Sherlock Holmes-like detective who tries to out-fox her. <img src="http://www.rcsmovie.co.jp/minami/2002/bara/tokage.jpg"> Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member So ludicrous, so 60s, and so much fun. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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