Fans of Funeral Parade of Roses (if you know, you know) will bow down for this kitschy avante-garde fantasy. Based on a novel by freaky-deaky pulp writer Edogawa Ranpo (fun fact: he constructed his pen name to sound like "Edgar Allen Poe"), Black Lizard was adapted into a stage play by Yukio Mishima in the '60s. The play was then reinterpreted by Kinji Fukasaku in this '68 flick about a jewel thief and a sharp detective. Black Lizard stars legendary drag performer Akihiro Miwa, a close friend of Mishima; viewers will also catch Mishima in an on-screen cameo as a human taxidermy specimen!