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Sperm Palace

2007 · 14 min

A curious, quietly bizarre tour of a vanished private museum, equal parts deadpan documentary and eccentric outsider art.

Directed by
Kyoichi Tsuzuki
Overview
A 15-minute virtual tour video done for Japan's sadly defunct "Toba International House of Hidden Treasures - SF Future Museum". Opened adjacent to a railway station in 1981, until the year 2000 this four story Museum/environment housed the extraordinary sex-related collections of items of the late designer and creator Masato Matsuno. With everything from black velvet paintings to Edo Period erotic tableaux reconstructed from customized manikins, the piece de resistance here is the documentation of the rooms depicting the hunting, sperm extraction, then disposal of humans by extraterrestrial:

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Directed by
Kyoichi Tsuzuki
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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • obsession
  • memory
  • sexuality
Places
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex strong
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Action0
Horror2
Humour3
Realism7
Romance0
Tension1
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight2

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Directed by
Kyoichi Tsuzuki
Runtime
14 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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