Call Sheet: Yaki & Kita: Midnight Pilgrims

Yaki & Kita: Midnight Pilgrims is the best psychedelic-Japanese-gay-Samurai-road flick we've ever seen. Granted, it's the only psychedelic-Japanese-gay-Samurai-road flick we've seen, but still. Blending Western mythology, magic mushrooms, and camp, midnight movie hijinks, the film is a long, strange trip that nudges cinematic conventions to confront the nature of reality. According to TLA:


In the ancient Edo period, Yaji and Kita are two flamboyant, down-and-out samurai who embark on a journey on their souped-up chopper to battle Kita's heroin addiction and contemplate the meaning of their truly bizarre existence. On their way to a healing shrine at Ise, they trip through a world where fantasy is reality, and the past and present intersect....
Marked with a unique brand of cinematic mayhem, this hallucinogenic gay love story is sure to delight and bewilder all who dare journey with them.

We highly recommend this film, and we recommend you see it high. It's subtitled, though, so don't get so baked you can't read.

You can buy the DVD here.