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Attack Of The Mushroom People...

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Recently, I remembered an old movie called Attack Of The Mushroom People aka Matango ... After a yacht is damaged in a storm and it’s boarders stranded on a deserted island, the passengers; a psychologist and his girlfriend, a wealthy businessman, a famous singer, a writer, a sailor and his skipper take refuge in a mysterious fungus-covered boat. While using the mushrooms for sustenance they find in the ship's journal that the mushrooms are poisonous, however some members of the shipwrecked party continue to ingest the mysterious fungi transforming them into hideous fungal monsters. One of the strangest and most horrific TOHO productions to date. Over the weekend, I was suddenly and shockingly reminded of Attack Of The Mushroom People , an old movie that I saw many years ago. According to Amazon , it was available of DVD a few years ago, but, now it appears to be out of print... Actually, despite the fact that Matango is supposedly out of print, I ordered it from one of my fav

Time Of Eve...

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The time had come to stock up on a few obscure items, so, I turned to my favorite online retailer and ordered Time Of Eve ... Two high school boys grapple with their own humanity in a world where people are serviced by androids distinguished from their masters only by the halo-like rings above their heads. Rikuo and his childhood pal Masaki find their assumptions about androids radically challenged when they come across Time of EVE, a cafe where androids and people are treated as equals. Liberated from the strictures of the Ethics Committee, Masaki and Rikuo must confront old wounds of betrayal and grief, and are faced with decisions that put their friendship and families on the line. According to Wikipedia : Time of Eve is a six-episode OVA anime series created by Yasuhiro Yoshiura, the director of Aquatic Language and Pale Cocoon. Produced by Studio Rikka and DIRECTIONS, Inc., the series streamed on Yahoo! Japan from August 1, 2008 to September 18, 2009, with simulcasts by Cru