Okay, Japanese cult film fans it's time to strap in: the good folks at Synapse are about to unleash a trio of Minoru Kawasaki films on these shores. Yes, all you fans of Kawasaki's The Calamari Wrestler, you're about to get more low budget goofiness with local releases for Kawasaki's crime noir with great big animals Executive Koala, the surprise hit disaster spoof The World Sinks Except Japan and seldom seen cop parody The Rug Cop in which the hero battles evil with his flying toupee and help from his cohorts Detective Fatty, Detective Big Dick, Detective Shorty and Mr Handsome. All three get anamorphic transfers and making of featurettes while The World Sinks also boasts an audio commentary. The cult's about to get a bit bigger ...
Check the trailers for all three below the break in the Twitch Player.
*preorders*!
[Happosai]
This is great news, although I think Calamari Wrestler is the best movie of the lot. I think Executive Koala could easily get a cult following on its own even though it didn't appeal to me as much.
I hope the stuff he's done this year makes it to DVD in the US a little more quickly if this sells well!