Horrors of Malformed Men (1969, Japan)

(Japanese title: Edogawa ranpo taizen: Kyofu kikei ningen)

Released in partnership with Synapse Films, this is the most notorious film in the history of Japanese cinema. Teruo Isshi's Pièce de résistance was banned upon it's release in 1968 and has never screened again. The Synapse folks handled the restoration of this lost classic, and it has never looked better. It is also packed with extra features including one of the final interviews that director ever gave. You owe it to yourself to see this film!

DVD Features

• New, fully restored, anamorphic widescreen transfer mastered in high-definition from Toei's original vault elements
• Japanese language with newly-translated, removable English subtitles
• Audio commentary by film critic Mark Schilling
• MALFORMED MEMORIES, an all-new, half-hour documentary featuring interviews with cult film directors and Ishii fans Shinya Tsukamoto (TETSUO THE IRON MAN) and Minoru Kawasaki (THE CALAMARI WRESTLER), plus comments from Teruo Ishii himself
• ISHII IN ITALIA, the director's 2003 visit to the Far East Film Festival
• Original Japanese theatrical trailer
• Teruo Ishii poster gallery
• Director and writer biographies
• Liner notes by Japanese film writers Patrick Macias, Tomo Machiyama and Jasper Sharp
• Reversible cover with original Japanese poster artwork