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SHE’S JUST A SHADOW (Japanese manga meets grindhouse? Yes, please)

"An orgy of sex and drugs and extreme violence"
Tao Okamoto and Haruka Abe
Directed by Adam Sherman

“Women. No matter how human they seem... they’re just shadows. But on the other hand, aren’t we all?” From the edges of the bizarre and the extremely weird, “She’s Just A Shadow” is truly something else. The matriarch of a Tokyo prostitution empire, married to a vicious and violent pimp, leads her own gang against rival yakuza. All the while, a serial killer prey on her girls and one of her ... more >

SHORT TAKES: HAPPINESS RUNS

By STAFF - April 7, 2010Little by little, Victor starts to notice the cracks in the utopic ideals of the hippie commune where he was raised. His mother helps to fund it while the guru, Insley, hypnotizes and seduces women with a technique he calls “running.” Insley manipulates the minds of these women so that they give him their bodies and all their worldly possessions. Victor’s childhood love, ... more >