New director-approved 4K Restoration from the original 16mm camera and sound negatives Rubber’s Lover (ラバーズ・ラバー) is a 1996 black-and-white Japanese cyberpunk-horror film written and directed by legendary filmmaker Shozin Fukui. Often interpreted as a prequel to 964 Pinocchio (1991), Rubber’s Lover details a clandestine group of scientists who conduct psychic experiments on human guinea pigs