Dutch Wife in the Desert

  • USA Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (more)
Japan, 1967, 85 min

Directed by:

Atsushi Yamatoya

Screenplay:

Atsushi Yamatoya

Composer:

Yōsuke Yamashita

Cast:

Miki Watari

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Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands is a deliciously delirious cult film about a hitman (Yuichi Minato) who is hired by a rich real estate agent to find an abducted woman (Noriko Tatsumi). This simple setup gives way to a hip and chaotic worldview full of hard-boiled characters, sexy action, and hallucinatory imagery. (Third Window Films)

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English A Japanese action-packed Trans-Europ-Express: all the time planes and possibilities of character development and events coexist in a single moment. I fundamentally disagree with the notion that every stylistic element was motivated purely by impulsive decision, because on the contrary, the individual elements, by which the usual linearity is undermined ("he greeted me like a Yakuza," it was at three o'clock, "it's strange that he left only one bullet in the eardrum", etc.), are and must be carefully incorporated into the final editing of such a film. This is precisely because it is not easy to create a film in which no event, no decision, or no mistake exists only once, but the characters constantly return from the future or are attacked by their own past. It is not easy for it not to leave the possibility of simple reconstruction (in this case, I would only criticize the author for being too obvious in some of the above-mentioned crucial points of the film's construction). ()

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