964 Pinocchio

 

964 Pinocchio (1991) is a cyberpunk body horror film directed by Shōzin Fukui. The film tells the story of a memory wiped cyborg slave who after being discarded by his owners, wanders through an urban wasteland and meets a homeless woman suffering from memory loss and together they descend into a hallucinatory nightmare of identity, control, and transformation.

Fukui's film is a visceral assault on the senses, blending surreal imagery, kinetic handheld camerawork, and industrial noise into a fever dream of dehumanization and decay.

964 Pinocchio stands as a cult landmark of Japanese cyberpunk cinema, exploring the collapse of the body and mind in a dystopian, post-industrial world. It is widely considered as one of the best examples of the underground Japanese Cyberpunk genre.