15th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival 191

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This is how PiFan shows its unique respect towards cineasts, experts or directors. Let’s take a look at the latest works of great directors from American independent films of Monte Hellman and Gregg Araki to Japanese genre films of Shinji Imaoka, Shinya Tsukamoto, Lee Sang-il and Hirokazu Koreeda.

Kaboom

Gregg ARAKI | France/USA | 2010 | 86 Min | Feature/Fiction

Tripping on some hallucinogenic cookies he ate at a party, Smith is convinced he’s witnessed the gruesome murder of an enigmatic Red Haired Girl who has been haunting his dreams. What he discovers as he tries to find out the truth leads him deeper and deeper into a mystery.

Kaidan - Horror Classics 1

OCHIAI Masayuki / TSUKAMOTO Shinya | Japan | 2010 | 80 Min | Feature/Fiction

A man asks a woman to stay with him for one night. A anonymous letter arrives to an 18-year-old girl who has only a few months to live. A haunting and fantastic horror movie directed by Ochiai Masayuki and Tsukamoto Shinya.

Kaidan - Horror Classics 2

LEE Sang-il / KORE-EDA Hirokazu | Japan | 2010 | 80 Min | Feature/Fiction

A monk rescues a drowning boy only to be repaid by the boy’s disturbing glare. The young boy appears to a grieving couple who has just lost their child. But it is uncertain as to whether the child is the reincarnation of their son or a ghost. The disturbingly sad yet beautiful movie directed by Lee Sang-il of Villain and Hirokazu Kore-Eda.

L.A. Zombie

Bruce LABRUCE | Germany/France/USA | 2010 | 62 Min | Feature/Fiction

After getting picked up in the mountains by a surfer in a truck, a severe accident occurs. Like a kind of dark saviour, the alien zombie proceeds to find various dead men in the L.A. area - a criminal, a gangbanger, a homeless, a group of drug-addicted porn stars - and fuck them back to life.

Road to Nowhere

Monte HELLMAN | USA | 2010 | 121 Min | Feature/Fiction

A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue and crime, obsessed with the woman. A new film by Monte Hellman who is considered one of the finest auteurs to emerge from American independent cinema.

Underwater Love

IMAOKA Shinji | Japan | 2011 | 121 Min | Feature/Fiction

Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory. She is just about to be married to her boss. One day she encounters a Kappa, a water creature living in the lake and learns that it is the reincarnation of Aoki, her first love. What ensues is a zany spectacle of love, music and sex.

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