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Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)
Somewhere between "Night Of" and "Holloween"
Although this film was never released to theaters in Japan, but I saw it a couple of times during the midnight movie hour on TV (thanks to the no ratings and no censorship system). You can easily tell yourself this was one of those "wanna-be" young filmmakers' try-outs during the horror films were just about to crack open, after the Universal Studio's monster era was fading out, and witnesses of George A. Romero's breakthrough "Night Of The Living Dead". Surely it was released in the early 70's, so you can tell this was a Herschell Gordon Lewis clone. Unfortunately, Ed Adlum could not win the Lewis's hard-core fans over with this project, notably his lack of originality and authenticity. However I would like to give a little credit to Adlum for making this film as "being a part of horror history", that reflects like any other unknown artists' vision, turning confusion and anger at the time of Vietnam war into a work of "piece" just as Romero did it for the "Night Of".
Les sous-doués (1980)
Huge hit!
Like any other in pop culture, Japan seems always to be very adaptable anything that is "cool", with knowing of meaning of it isn't important. The celebration of Christmas Day is long gone.
Yes, I do remember this movie, of course. This was a huge hit in Japan when I was growing up... Japanese titled "The Cunning: IQ=0". I was in my first or second grade, all the kids learned the tricks of cheating exams, well, not during the real exams, but to act like those kids in the movie. That was a real fun to do.
And if I was right, there was a sequence of this film. Either way, I wish this movie was more well-distributed than it was, to this day, it remains as a "cult" film.
We enjoyed it a lot in Japan back then, it is so cool movie, we even did not know (or bother to know) this is from France.