director:
Alejandro Jodorowsky
starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky · Jacqueline Luis · Mara Lorenzio
A gunfighter,
El Topo, and his young son come to a village where the inhabitants have
been massacred, seemingly the work of bandits now rampaging a Franciscan
monastery nearby. After setting things right, El Topo chooses to abandon
his son to the care of the monks while continuing his journey with a wanton
named Mara. She, along with a mysterious woman in black, convinces El
Topo to find and defeat the "four master gunmen of the desert." After
all the gunplay, the two women leave El Topo dying in the desert. However,
he is rescued by a clan of deformed mountain people and eventually he
finds himself at odds with the inhabitants of a corrupt Western town and
its weird religious cult.
Japanese
import; fullscreen, uncut (125 min.) version in DVD encoded for ALL
REGIONS, playable on any American DVD machine; in English language with
removable Japanese subtitles as an option; Bonus includes trailers and
an interview with the director (interview is in Spanish with Japanese
subtitles only)
Violence
/Gore /Adult Materia/Nudity/Drug References:
Viewer discretion is advised
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