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Today at http://psychodrivein.com The Xeno File: Bakumatsu Taiyōden / Sun In The Last Days Of The Shogunate Yūzō Kawashima's Bakumatsu Taiyōden starts and ends as effortless entertainment, a breezy and bracing comedy exuding endless energy. It's also a cross-section of Japanese society in the years before the Meiji Restoration, and ultimately the kind of social commentary by proxy that all the best comedies manage to have in their blood. --- Read more of Serdar's review at the link in our profile! #bakumatsutaiyoden #yuzokawashima #japanese #comedy #thexenofile

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Today at http://psychodrivein.com The Xeno File: The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) Kazuhiko Hasegawa's 1979 film The Man Who Stole the Sun is to nuclear terrorism as Dr. Strangelove was to nuclear war, and may even be the more absurdist of the two films — a black-comedy rendition of a homebrew doomsday scenario. --- Read more of Serdar's review at the link in our profile! #themanwhostolethesun #kazuhikohasegawa #kenjisawada #buntasugawara #thexenofile

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Today at http://psychodrivein.com The Xeno File: The Lift (1983) "Take the stairs, take the stairs, for god's sake take the stairs!!" begged the tagline on the posters for the Dutch cult movie The Lift. In theory, this horror-comedy about killer elevators should have been fun. --- Read more of Serdar's article at the link in our profile! #thexenofile #thelift #dickmaas