It is the future. Solar flares have led to environmental catastrophe. A once proud America is now a mixture of totalitarian states, gang territories, and warlord fiefdoms. With everyone scrounging for the scraps, who are the few good people left to rely on? A woman with a bare face runs through darkened streets and alleys, […]
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Blind Woman’s Curse (1970)
During a rain-drenched showdown between two Yakuza factions, Akemi, the leader of one faction, inadvertently slices the eyes of an innocent woman trying to protect her relative. She looks down to see a cat lapping up the fallen woman’s blood before the feline attacks her, in an act that Akemi is convinced is the product […]
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Riki-oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
The summary of The Story of Ricky is really quite simple: In the far distant future of 2001 (*snort*), prisons are now privatized, no longer subject to even the most basic of government regulation. The prison (seemingly assembled from the “High School Gym Décor” catalogue) is governed by not only the violent and sadistic warden and assistant warden (claw hand and all), but also by the “Gang of Four”, ruthless and twisted inmates that oversee the four separate wings of the prison along with their roving gangs.
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Random Movie Musings 