Sub-Culture present: Sub-Cinema @ Dada

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Sub-Culture presents Sub-Cinema, a bi-weekly screening of the weird and wonderful! Taking place every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, Sub-Cinema will bring you cult classics, B-Movie madness, independent cinema, music documentaries and just plain good films. Doors open at 7pm and screenings will commence at 9pm sharp, with music provided before and after by Sub-Culture selectors Drunk Monk and Deville. All films will be shown with Chinese sub-titles, or in Chinese language, whenever possible.

Tuesday 22nd December - Perfect Blue (1997)

Mima is a singer who leaves her teeny-bop trio to become an actress in a violent television series, a career move that angers her fans, who prefer to see her as the pert, squeaky-clean pop idol. Plagued by self-doubt and tormented by humiliating compromises, she begins to be stalked, in her waking and sleeping moments, by an accusing alter ego who claims to be "the real Mima," until she collapses into madness as her coworkers are brutally slain around her.

Kon Satoshi’s ‘Perfect Blue’ was, and still is, one of the most ambitious animated films ever made. A full on adult psychological thriller, the story tackles the subjects of modern pop culture, idolisation, schizophrenia and paranoia, all presented with beautiful colour and classic animation. Often compared to the style of Hitchcock and Lynch, Perfect Blue was an absolute landmark in animated film and to this day remains as one of the best.

Mima – ‘What? This isn't true! I didn't write this! ‘ Mima – ‘Of course you didn't. The real Mima is writing this.’

English dubbing with Chinese sub-titles