964 Pinocchio (1991) on Netflix
Pinocchio 964, a memory-wiped cyborg sex slave, cannot hold an erection, so his owners dump him. Himiko, a homeless amnesiac, takes him in while the company that made him hunts him.
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Pinocchio 964 is a cyborg sold as a sex slave whose memory has been wiped. His owners get rid of him because he cannot keep an erection. Himiko is homeless and has lost her memory, though she still functions. She draws maps of the city for other people who have lost theirs. She finds Pinocchio wandering and brings him home, where she tries to teach him to speak. The head director of the company that built him, with his secretary, sends three employees, one of them a captain, after him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 964 Pinocchio (1991)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Shozin Fukui wrote the script for 964 Pinocchio while he was homeless, as he stated in an interview on the 88 Films Blu-ray release.
- The actress who played Himiko, credited as Onn-chan, was originally a crew member and was cast just a week before filming started; 964 Pinocchio was the only film she ever acted in.
- Due to the limited budget, director Shozin Fukui used an old wheelchair as a makeshift dolly during filming, as he stated in a 2007 interview included in the DVD release.
- The famous scene of Pinocchio running through a crowd in Tokyo was shot in Shinjuku without a permit because the crew was legally required to shoot off the road.
