*** This review may contain spoilers ***

As a early Shinya Tsukamoto movie, this is amazing. The best of his films together with Tetsou and one of the best of the sub-genre Japanese Cyberpunk, Visual effects here do not lose anything to the other movies of the director.

A boy who time travel to a dystopia future, where he finds and fight a bunch of vampires from the darkness, is a simple story of one man that have to save the world, the girl, and himself; (and become the Messiah?

I watched him with the name (The Great Analog World) and with less than 50 minutes projection joins my list of the best films I've seen in my life.

Here's an early Super 8 film that Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo, Tokyo Fist),made after Phantom of Regular Size and before Tetsuo. It actually quite elaborate for something done in 8mm, in fact nearly as elaborate as Tetsuo and it's nearly as long as well, clocking in about 50 minutes. It's also done in color, like Phantom of Regular Size, is in color, so it kind of looks more like Tetsuo II than the Tetsuo. I saw the film in raw Japanese, so the plot made no sense whatsoever, but I'm pretty sure that even if I perfectly understood Japanese I wouldn't get the plot. It does has far more dialogue than Tetsuo, however, so maybe there's something I'm not getting. It involves a boy with a weird electric pole sticking out of his back. He's constantly being bulled by other kids and he only has one friend. And to make things worse, he's then whisked off to an alternate dimension world where these weird vampires rule the planet (Tommoro Taguchi and the director himself both play vampires). Then the plot gets really weird, as the kid teams up with this lady with a book on her head to fight them. Then there's lots of sick blood draining, nudity, blood curdling screams, transformations, and the kid learns to use his electric pole to light bulbs and meets another electric rod man like himself.

As I said, this movie is very, very weird, but it has that wonderful independent film spirit that most of Tsukamoto's films have and it's very interesting to watch someone's early movies. A better quality, subtitled version would be nice someday and maybe I'd be able to understand this plot just a bit better.

Okay, this movie is a lot of fun and, even though it has some gruesome moments, it is easily Tsukamoto's most light toned film. I guess you could say it's kind of like a 'Wizard of Oz' for cyberpunks. The fact that it was filmed in Super 8 doesn't detract from its appeal as the settings and visual effects are all very, VERY well done.

SPOILERS! If you like your movies fresh, stop reading NOW.

The story line, as told elsewhere in these comments, deals with the Electric Rod Boy and Momo versus a group of Vampire thugs in a future hell scenario (where he also meets a future version of himself). Now, IIRC (it's been about five years since I saw it),the Vampire Gang have a giant machine that they are using to slowly obscure the sun so, when it is fully blacked out, they can rule Earth. In order for the machine to work it needs a virgin (which they get) as a battery!!! Unfortunately for the Vampire Gang one of the higher ups can't control himself and sucks her blood thereby poisoning their doomsday machine! Just thought I'd add those little plot points to what's already been written.

YEEEEAAAH! What a crazy movie!