Mind Blowing Movies: Popee the Performer (circa 2000), by Lars Martinson

This week, Boing Boing is presenting a series of essays about movies that have had a profound effect on our invited essayists. See all the essays in the Mind Blowing Movies series here. -- Mark

Mind Blowing Movies: Popee the Performer (circa 2000), by Lars Martinson

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Lars Martinson is a cartoonist who lives in Kameoka, Japan. Collections of his digital comics are available on the iBookstore and as DRM-free PDFs.

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http://larsmartinson.com/ Lars Martinson

When I drew this comic for the “Mind Blowing” series, I had no idea that not only would Jim Woodring be doing one, but that he’d be writing about a Fleischer cartoon! Small world!
http://boingboing.net/2012/06/05/mind-blowing-movies-bimbos.html
zombiebob

I’m just waiting for someone to choose Vulgar the Clown as one of the mind bending movies.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1007811994 Large Mammal
  
  ” in a movie about clown-rape, it’s important to get right to the ‘clown-raping’.”
  - K. Smith
zarray

YES! I love Popee! Kedamono is my favorite; there’s so much mystery surrounding him.
http://walkingwithshimmer.wordpress.com/ Werther deGoethe

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was introduced to Popee years ago and could never find the bizarreness again because I couldn’t remember the name.

Yes, indeedy, it will blow your mind.
Labbit

In the Christmas and New Year period of 05/06 I spent two weeks in Japan with my then-fiancee who was there on the JET program. One night we had dinner at the home of a teacher from the school where she was based. Afterwards, the teacher’s university-aged daughter produced these DVDs of something called “Popee the Clown” which we sat and watched for over an hour.

I’d watched a lot of anime before, but this was some of the weirdest, most awesome whacked out stuff I’d ever seen! I’ll never forget my Japanese Night of Popee™.
Jonathan Roberts

Was that the troll face on 2:22?
pjcamp

Holy crap!

This is what the Occupy movement would look like on acid.
foobar

O.o
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

I like how they gave him (?) boxer shorts, rather than just the standard cartoon animal featureless crotch. Just that added bit of odd.

Edit: That was supposed to be in response to zarray. Posting is weird tonight.
- http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood
  
  Posting is weird tonight.
  
  I’ll say. Fist-pumping refrigerator doorknobs, Margaret.
elix

In the “Ghost” episode (the second video), the episode begins with several seconds sampled directly from Moonlit City Roa, from the Legend of Mana soundtrack by Yoko Shimomura. That game had only been published in Japan in July, 1999, so it would’ve been a fairly timely (if not well-known) little insert.
http://avarana.blogspot.com MarlboroTestMonkey7

So the kids got to see anime Ringu before the live action one?
Ambiguity

That frog would have made a nice helicopter.
http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

Does what it says on the tin.
snagglepuss

Or, David Lynch does “The Children’s Hour”.
http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

I thought Popee was a woman and Kedamono was her dog.
miasm

wow. good recommendation dude.
This boggles my mind in places I didn’t even know I had boggles.