Sixty Million Dollar Man + Incoherence

Sixty Million Dollar Man (1995)
Dir. Wai Man Yip
90min, Digital
With Stephen Chow, Gigi Leung, Richard Ng Man-Tat, Paulyn Sun, Joe Cheng Cho, Elvis Tsui Kam-Kong, Manfred Wong Man-Chun, Alvina Kong Yan-Yin, Johnny Siu Juen Dang
In Cantonese with English subtitles

In one of the craziest and most inspired Stephen Chow outings from the 1990s, a rich playboy (Chow) gets blown up by a gangster (Joe Cheng) when he flirts with the gangster's wife. Through a series of ludicrous circumstances, Professor Chang Sze (Elvis Tsui) makes him a synthetic body that allows him to change into anything he wants—which gradually helps him learn humility and discipline. With cheeky homages to Pulp Fiction, The Mask, Terminator, and myriad other Hollywood movies, Sixty Million Dollar Man is a deceptively smart movie: a zany gross-out comedy about techno-futurism and cyborg lives with an uproarious surprise appearance by a rice cooker.

Preceded by

Incoherence (1994)
Dir. Bong Joon Ho
30min, Digital
With Yoo Yeon-soo, Yun Il-ju, Kim Roi-ha, Lim Sang-hyo, Shin Dong-hwan, Kim Seon-hwa, Kim Jin-sung, Park Kwang-jin, Lee Sang-yeob, Bong Joon Ho
In Korean with English subtitles

This short film by Bong-Joon Ho, made while the Korean auteur was in film school, distills the preoccupations that have come to characterize his remarkable filmography. Across three episodes, Incoherence traces the misadventures of badly behaved middle-aged men—touching upon voyeurism and sex, crime and class, politics and perversity. The rice cooker’s gasp-inducing cameo is an early example of the kinds of twists Bong is now famous for: cheeky, salacious, and slyly profound.