1996 Japanese film
 is a 1996 black and white Japanese cyberpunk-horror film written and directed by Shozin Fukui (best known for "964 Pinocchio")
Premise.
Often interpreted as a prequel to "964 Pinocchio", "Rubber's Lover" details a clandestine group of scientists who conduct psychic experiments on human guinea-pigs that they take from the streets. Using brain-altering drugs, sensory deprivation and computer interfaces, they subject their patients to gruesome scientific tortures that often end in brutal death. After continued failure and pressure from the company to cancel the project, they pursue one last experiment using one of their own as a test subject – yielding dangerous results.
Production.
Fukui started preparing "Rubber's Lover" right after the release of "964 Pinocchio" and it took five years for it to complete. During filming, the crew were prohibited to speak in a way the actors could feel separated.
Similar works.
Like "", it is filmed in stark black and white and set in a decayed postindustrial city. Like that film, it utilizes horror imagery.
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