Black Lizard

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12/31/2017 One of the best of the Japanese martial arts genre; look fast for playwright Yukio Mishima in a cameo. See more 04/15/2013 awesome kitsch 60's japanese detective film See more 10/09/2012 Disney, Japanese new wave, noir. In other words: weird, vaguely musical and great! See more 12/13/2011 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. See more 06/16/2010 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"> See more 06/24/2009 So ludicrous, so 60s, and so much fun. See more Read all reviews

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