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KAIBA: SEASON ONE (SUBTITLED)
In this wildly unique series from anime auteur Masaaki Yuasa (Night Is Short, Walk on Girl), a boy with no name awakens with a hole through his chest, a strange marking on his belly, and no memories. The one link to his past is a locket containing a picture of a girl whose name he does not know. Within moments he meets Popo, who unlike the memoryless boy has a purpose. Through Popo, the boy learns that where he is a body without memory, in this world there are many who are only memories with no body. The rich harvest the choice bodies, leaving only the dregs for those down below. And yet even though he has no memories, there are many who seem to want his life. How does he fit into this world where not even memories might be real? Find out across the 12 SEASON ONE episodes now available on AsianCrush.
KYOUSOUGIGA: SEASON ONE (SUBTITLED)
In Kyoto, nothing changes. No, not “that” Kyoto, but rather the “Mirror Capital” Kyoto, the world inside of a painting! Colorful, beautiful, but static, the people of this world live an idyllic, if boring life. That is, until Koto appears, like a wrecking ball slamming into still waters. Koto’s never met her mother, and in search of clues about her missing parent, she winds up in the very place she’s supposed to be, yet least expected. What unfolds is a tale of a crazy, mixed-up family, where the father has mysterious powers, the mother is a goddess, and the siblings have an intense rivalry that will finally see its conclusion… even if that conclusion brings about the attention of the Shrine, an organization dedicated to protecting the multiverse. A 10-episode action-fantasy anime from Toei Animation.
Friday, September 13
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EARL & FAIRY: SEASON ONE (AKA HAKUSHAKU TO YOUSEI)
In 19th century England, 17-year-old Lydia Carlton makes her living as a fairy doctor. She is one of the rare humans who can see and communicate with fairies, though no one believes her. However, when Edgar J. C. Ashenbert comes to town claiming to be royalty: the Blue Knight’s Earl. In need of someone with a vast knowledge of fairy lore, her life is turned upside down, when she joins his quest for a priceless magic sword, traveling from her rural home to the magical world of fairies in this 12-episode adventure and fantasy-filled romantic anime series.
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OVERMAN
From director Seo Eun-Young comes this 2015 drama which world premiered at the Busan International Film Festival. After high school gymnast Do-hyeon (Kim Jung-hyun) is ordered to perform community service in the library as punishment, he meets bookworm Soo-hyeon (Chae Seo-jin) and they strike up a relationship. Though new love is exciting, all is not what it seems: Do-hyeon’s mother, a former actress, is surrering from dementia and can’t even recognize her own son, Soo-hyeon is really Se-yeong, on a mission to understand the reason behind her friend Soo-hyeon’s suicide by reading all the books she borrows from the library. Will Do-hyeon carry on with his gymnastics? Can Se-yeong overcome her obsession with her dearly departed friend? Each of them face new choices in this bittersweet coming of age story. (South Korea, 2015, 120 mins)
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CYCLE-CYCLE
Two high school boys, Junpei and Satoshi, start a bicycle trip around Japan on a tandem, but soon split over an argument. Junpei keeps going and soon picks up a hitchhiker named Mitsuru, who’s heading to his grandfather’s house. However when they reach the house, they find a dead body in the room in this absurdist short film from director Kanai Junichi. (Japan, 2017, 18 mins.)
Friday, September 27
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CERES, CELESTIAL LEGEND (AKA AYASHI NO CERES)
The series focuses on Aya Mikage, who learns on her sixteenth birthday that she is the reincarnation of an ancient and supremely powerful celestial maiden named Ceres. Her twin brother Aki is the reincarnation of Ceres’ former husband, Mikagi, who had stolen Ceres’ robe. Ceres’ spirit begins manifesting in Aya, and to save her brother she must find Ceres’ long-lost celestial robe, while avoiding being killed or captured by family members who want to use Ceres’s supreme celestial abilities for their own personal gain.
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KID MON; REAL NAME UNKNOWN
Following in the footsteps Hirokazu Koreeda’s Nobody Knows comes another heartbreaking drama addressing an emerging social problem in modern Japan: child abandonment. In a small town, two senior high school girls, Kaede and Aszusa, accidentally find a boy living alone in an old, unrepaired building. Naming him “Mon,” they begin to care for him and set off on a cross-country search for his mother. (Japan, 2015, 85 mins.)
Friday, September 13
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THE SADIST OF NOTRE DAME*
In 1979, legendary writer/director Jess Franco (Vampyros Lesbos) re-purposed elements of his satanic sex shocker EXORCISM with all-new footage to create a depraved new epic that achieves new levels of EuroSleaze insanity. Franco himself stars a defrocked priest turned hooker-slashing psychopath, prowling the streets of Paris in a fever of violence, voyeurism, rampant nudity and S&M depravity. Olivier Mathot (Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties), Pierre Taylou (Hot Nights of Linda), Antonio DeCabo (Virgin Among the Living Dead) and Jess’ beloved muse Lina Romay (Macumba Sexual, Mansion of the Living Dead) co-star in what Franco considered to be his most personal film of all. (Spain, 96 mins.)
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GO SHOGUN: SEASON ONE
All 26 episodes of this super robot anime series which was aired in Japan in 1981 debuts in Midnight Pulp this September! In GO SHOGUN, former soldier Shingo Hojo, French spy Remy Shimada, and Bronx gangster Killy Gagley aren’t exactly your “hero of justice” types. They’d rather be flirting, bantering, and goofing off than battling evil. But when the malicious worldwide organization Docooga attempts to steal a new, powerful form of energy called Beamler, they’ll take up arms to fight them… in the awesome giant robot, GoShogun! Now pursued around the world in their teleporting carrier Good Thunder, GoShogun’s piloting team must keep Docooga at bay while foiling their eccentric enforcers, righting wrongs they come across, and occasionally facing ghosts from their own tragic pasts. It’s an unexpected combination of drama, satire, and giant robot action like nothing you’ve ever seen before!
Friday, September 20
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CYBUSTER: THE COMPLETE SERIES
Set in 2040 Tokyo, in an environmentally wrecked future Tokyo, a young man named Ken Ando joins an organization called DC to clean up the city. After a mysterious robot begins attacking the DC cleanup crews, the organization starts militarizing to hide its secrets and little does Ken realize that his fate and that of Earth are linked to this mecha from another world. CYBUSTER: THE COMPLETE SERIES, featuring 26 episodes, is loosely based on original characters and a Cybuster mecha from the video game series “Super Robot Wars”.
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THE DEVIL’S HONEY*
In perhaps his most rarely seen film, Godfather Of Gore Lucio Fulci takes on the erotic thriller genre and unleashes the ultimate onslaught of glossy depravity: Brett Halsey (Demonia, The Return of the Fly), Corinne Cléry (The Story of O, Moonraker) and Blanca Marsillach star in this insane S&M saga complete with sodomy, torture, torrid romance, and a jaw-dropping cavalcade of kink that Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci calls “Demented and hot…good sleazy fun and perhaps Fulci’s last truly enjoyable film.” Stefano Madia (Body Count), Bernard Seray (Hell of the Living Dead) and Fulci himself co-star in this skintastic sickie. (Italy, 78 mins., 1986)
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DEATH WARMED UP*
Three years before Peter Jackson’s BAD TASTE, a young New Zealand filmmaker sprayed international movie screens with brains, blood and bizarre body fluids for the first splatter movie in Kiwi history: Director David Blyth (Wound, Ghost Bride) launched his genre career with this relentlessly graphic – and still-intense – story of mad doctors, nude teens, psychotic mutants, shotgun murders, power drill lobotomies, explosive action and punk attitude that AXS.com calls “weird, wonky and one hell of a ride that will have gorehounds howling!” Michael Hurst (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys), Bruno Lawrence (The Quiet Earth) and Ian Watkin (Dead Alive) star in this landmark gore thriller from “New Zealand’s master of transgression” (Fangoria). (85 mins., 1985)
Friday, September 27
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BLUE SEED: THE COMPLETE SERIES
The countdown to extinction begins when the evil shape-shifting monsters known as the Aragami make their grand play to gain control of the earth. Humanity’s only chance for survival rests on the shoulders of Momiji, a young girl carrying an unborn Aragami in her chest and Kusanagi, a servant of the Aragami rebelling against his masters in order to ensure mankind’s survival. Watch the battle for earth’s survival unfold across all 26 episodes of the groundbreaking anime series, BLUE SEED!
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