Summary: While the title is the same as the '85 Rough Trade album, the songs are different. You do get Halber Mensch, Z.N.S. [Z/Central Nervous System], Sehnsucht (zitternd), Der Tod ist ein Dandy and Letztes Biest (am Himmel). But you also get Armenia (maybe my favorite), Abfackelin, Die Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. and Schaben (that wonderful Cathedral of noise).
Filmed in Japan and directed by Sogo Ishii. And it is as weird as you have been promised. Z.N.S features a very strange Japanese dance ensemble. Stunning visual landscapes throughout: Schaben, for example, places our boys in some sort of traffic median, out of earshot and quite marooned.
Wonderfully cosmopolitan!
Halber Mensch
(1993)
Japan
