Zabriskie Point

USA, 1970
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin

Poster for the 1997 release.

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Tonite! Let's All Make Love in London

United Kingdom, 1967
Director: Peter Whitehead
Starring: Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, John Lennon, The Animals

This poster is for the 2001 Japan release.

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Tonite! Let's All Make Love in London

United Kingdom, 1967
Director: Peter Whitehead
Starring: Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, John Lennon, The Animals

This poster is for the 1995 Japan release, where it was called "Swinging London".

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

USA, 1975
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito

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Apocalypse Now

USA, 1979
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper

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The Godfather: Part III

USA, 1990
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia

Poster lettering in gold ink.

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The Godfather

USA, 1972
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan

Poster for the 2007 re-release.

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Raging Bull

USA, 1980
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci

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Dead or Alive: Final

Japan, 2002
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Maria Chen

The final installment in Takashi Miike's wacky DOA trilogy.

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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

Japan, 2002
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Riki Takeuchi, Ryosuke Miki, Ken'ichi Endo, Sonny Chiba, Miho Nomoto

A Takashi Miike yakuza flick, with a fantastic cast. Scroll down for a link to my review of the film.

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Read a Review of the movie at Twisted Flicks

Visitor Q

Japan, 2001
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Ken'ichi Endo, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe

Around this time, Takashi Miike made many great movies - including Ichi the Killer and Happiness of the Katakuris in this same year alone. This is certainly one of his more twisted films ... which by definition probably makes it one of the most twisted films period.

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Ichi The Killer

Japan, 2001
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ohmori, Shinya Tsukamoto, Alien Sun

One of my first experiences with the more twisted end of Japanese cinema. My movie-viewing habits haven't been the same since. Great movie from Takashi Miike, and featuring Tadanobu Asano as the masochistic yakuza Kakihara.

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Zero Woman R

Japan, 2007
Director: Kenichi Fujiwara
Starring: Atsuko Miura, Sasa Hanada

Because crime-fighting is far more effective when wearing the correct lingerie.

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Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

Japan, 2009
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Starring: Eric Bossick, Akiko Mono, Yuko Nakamura

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Tomie: Re-birth

Japan, 2001
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Miki Sakai, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kumiko Endou

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Tales of Terror from Kanto

Japan, 2011
Director: Kenji Murakami
Starring: Takeshi Goto, Kobayashi Ginti

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Tales of Terror

Japan, 2005
Director: Akio Yoshida
Starring: Naoto Takenaka, Yasufumi Hayashi, Daisuke Shima, Harumi Inoue

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Zombie Hunter Rika

Japan, 2008
Director: Ken'ichi Fujiwara
Starring: Mina Arai, Lemon Hanazawa, Kotaro Kamijo

If you need to deal with a zombie infestation, your best bet is to find a Japanese schoolgirl. She's bound to have a samurai sword or chainsaw on hand to deal with the situation.

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Stacy

Japan, 2001
Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Starring: Norman England, Tomoka Hayashi, Yukijiro Hotaru

Attack of the schoolgirl zombies! Check out the whimsical genre icons at bottom right.

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Copycat Killer

aka Mohouhan
Japan, 2002
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Starring: Masahiro Nakai, Kanji Tsuda, Takashi Fujii, Yoshino Kimura, Eiko Koike

Great minimal design using bold colour with black and white silhouette.

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Versus

Japan, 2000
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Starring: Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka

Ryuhei Kitamura's hyper-kinetic horror-comedy flick.

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Parasite Eve

Japan, 1997
Director: Masayuki Ochiai
Starring: Hiroshi Mikami, Riona Hazuki, Tomoko Nakajima

Great poster for an interesting sci-fi/horror flick.

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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (B)

USA, 2005
Director: George Lucas
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson

Art by Drew Struzan

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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (A)

USA, 2005
Director: George Lucas
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson

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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (B)

USA, 2002
Director: George Lucas
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Rose Byrne

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