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Desu pawuda

  • 1986
  • 1h 3m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
399
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Desu pawuda (1986)
Body HorrorHorrorSci-Fi

Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever.Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever.Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever.

  • Director
    • Shigeru Izumiya
  • Writer
    • Shigeru Izumiya
  • Stars
    • Shigeru Izumiya
    • Takichi Inukai
    • Rikako Murakami
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    399
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Shigeru Izumiya
    • Writer
      • Shigeru Izumiya
    • Stars
      • Shigeru Izumiya
      • Takichi Inukai
      • Rikako Murakami
    • 9User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Shigeru Izumiya
    • Harima
    Takichi Inukai
    Rikako Murakami
    • Norris
    Mari Natsuki
    • Guernica
    Kiyoshirô Imawano
    • Dr. Loo
    Tamio Kageyama
    Kôichi Satô
    Kôichi Satô
    • Director
      • Shigeru Izumiya
    • Writer
      • Shigeru Izumiya
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    User reviews9

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    8HumanoidOfFlesh

    Supremely bizarre and hallucinogenic cyberpunk nightmare.

    A humanoid female is kept tied up in a decrepit basement and several unknown groups of people seem to be interested in this creature.When the creature blows dust on some intruders,it sends them off to another world and gives them deep understanding of...something or another to do with rising above the limitations of flesh.These various parties fight it out amongst themselves,some turning out to be more than human."Death Powder" is an total hallucinogenic mindtrip.It's filled with scenes of horror and gore and several moments of a wall-to-wall surrealism.It's really hard to objectively summarize its plot,it's so strange and trippy.If you enjoyed "Tetsuo" or "964 Pinocchio" give "Death Powder" a look.
    5shawnblackman

    Wtf?

    This is probably the most nonsensical whacked out flick you'll ever watch. A Japanese cyberpunk horror that that inspired ones like Rubber's Lover (1996) and 964 Pinocchio (1991). Most of the time you'll just be scratching your head wondering what the hell is going on. The powder involved in the film mutates and eventually explodes your head. I watched a VHS tape of this that had some mileage and of course some dialogue wasn't subtitled but no matter here people. One part just shows stills for five minutes.

    Most of the effects were the ones they used in 80's music videos but effective enough. I think it would be dangerous to watch this on acid.
    CurtHerzstark

    Weird for the sake of weird?

    Watching this 1986 oddity I can't life of me understand what it is about. There are some reviewers here that give away small hints but I don't know if I understand.

    There are lot of stuff here that's reminiscent of Lynch, and Cronenberg etc but director Shigeru Izumiya defies even their style, content, by doing even more surreal choices when it comes to direction, script etc.

    Personally I haven't seen such a weird film in a long time, the latest being Fellini - Satyricon (1969. But Fellini - Satyricon (1969)had at least some narrative, this doesn't even try.

    In many ways this films feels and looks a videoart exhibit were viewers are supposed to feel, respond to it on a subconscious level.

    I'm not sure if that was the directors intent but that is the look and style of this film.

    Shigeru Izumiya has according IMDb not directed a another film. Which is too bad because his use of bodyhorror, surrealism etc could have made into one of the most interesting personal filmmakers I've seen.

    Future viewers may not like this but it is well worth a look.
    8Food

    Bizarre and Disjointed

    This film is hyped as being in the same sub-genus of film as Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' or Shozin Fukui's '964 Pinocchio.' It is, however not as focussed or crafted as either of those films. Still, it warrants a degree of attention.

    The story, as I understand it: Three conspirators steal a secret android. In their warehouse hideout, the android secretes a reality-altering substance, which casts them into a frightening nether-world of interconnected subjectivity.

    Meanwhile, in the real world, workers enter the warehouse, only to find that the occupants within have mutated into a huge, protoplasmic organism.

    Some aspects of this film are more successful than others. The protoplasm being is great, it reminds me of some kind of Kroft-type Saturday morning special effect creature gone really, really wrong. On the other hand an extended montage of stills to ironically loungy music badly overstays it's welcome.

    Still, it all seems in good fun; during one of the hallucination sequences, the scientist who designed the android is revealed in a bizarre music video sequence---as a singer for an 80s hair-band.
    Eviljomr

    Bizarre

    Hands down, the most bizarre film I have ever seen. Makes Lost Highway look like an exercise in coherent storytelling. I've watched it about ten times, and I still don't know what the hell it's about. I don't know what else to say about it.

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    • Release date
      • June 21, 1986 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Death Powder
    • Production companies
      • Essen Communications
      • Media Mix Japan Company (MMJ)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 3m(63 min)
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