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Rubber's Lover (1996)

Rubber's Lover poster
Original title
ラバーズ・ラバー
Directed by
Shozin Fukui
Genre
cyberpunk, science fiction film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 40 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A secret government project tries to create psychic soldiers by subjecting test subjects to traumatic experiences. The experiments go horribly wrong, unleashing violent and grotesque consequences on the researchers.

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What happens

Rubber's Lover (ラバーズ・ラバー) is a 1996 black and white Japanese cyberpunk-horror film written and directed by Shozin Fukui (best known for 964 Pinocchio). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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