INFLATABLE SEX DOLL OF THE WASTELANDS

“Every day at 3 o’clock I’ve been killing you in my daydreams,” murmurs the low-rent hitman haunted by his girlfriend’s death years earlier and seeking revenge on the gangster who killed her, in Atsushi Yamatoya’s eerie, seedy, 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, inserts that shatter the fourth wall and dissonant free jazz everywhere. Rescued from the only surviving 35mm film elements.