Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell

A hijacked airliner crashes in a wasteland. A survivor is taken over by a silver alien that enters through a wound in his forehead and turns him into a blood-drinker, and the survivors turn on each other.

Hajime Sato made a lean, angry, brightly coloured piece of science-fiction horror with a genuine misanthropic streak: the passengers are a gallery of the corrupt and the cowardly, and the film's contempt for humanity builds to an apocalyptic ending that few films of the period would attempt.

The opening, a plane flying through a blood-red sky past drifting orbs, was reproduced by Tarantino as the opening of Kill Bill Vol. 1, which is how most Western viewers first encountered the image.

It is a Vietnam-era film and it is not hiding it.

Short, strange and considerably more nihilistic than its pulp premise suggests.