Japanese Halloween Shlockfest Double Bill at the Barbican

Kyonyū Dragon (Big Tits Zombie) 3D is directed by Takao Nakano and stars Japanese adult video superstar Sora Aoi, and will be introduced by Festival Director Jasper Sharp.

Kyonyū Dragon (Big Tits Zombie) 3D is a tongue in cheek take on the Western/Zombie genre Japanese style, with bored exotic dancers unwittingly unleashing an army of the undead and having to battle them armed with nothing but samurai swords, chainsaws and wasabi paste, in a live film adaptation of Rei Mikamoto’s cult manga. Peppered with 3D set pieces, Kyonyū Dragon (Big Tits Zombie) 3D is showing as part of the Barbican’s Halloween Shlockfest Double Bill, and is distributed in the UK by Terracotta Distribution.

Having its world premiere with Kyonyū Dragon (Big Tits Zombie) 3D is 3D short Augmented City 3D by award-winning director Keiichi Matsuda. A meditation on the architecture of the contemporary city as it becomes more and more about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise and less about the physical space of buildings and landscape.

From the team that bought us Machine Girl, RoboGeisha is unashamedly over-the-top and deliriously inventive. A megalomaniac Japanese businessman and his son recruit a vicious gang of surgically enhanced Geisha assassins. Directed by Noboru Iguchi, with special effects supervisor Nishimura Yoshihiro, and featuring buildings that bleed, a Giant Castle Robot, and breast milk from hell, it’s a wonderfully insane mix that will have you laughing out loud. RoboGeisha is showing as part of the Barbican’s Halloween Shlockfest Double Bill, and is distributed in the UK by CineAsia.

For more information and ticketing, visit Barbican - Aspects of Japanese Cinema - Japanese Halloween Shlockfest Double Bill. Tickets can be purchased online for Big Tits Zombie 3D + Augmented City 3D and RoboGeisha.