‘Dragon Gate’: Search for Self

No Oscar season would be complete without films opening in self-deluded Oscar-qualifying runs.

Such a film is “The Dragon Gate,” which opens today at the Sunset 5. Dan Coplan, who wrote, produced and starred in this supernatural quest for self-knowledge, is an attorney and martial artist, playing the same in the film.

Coplan unfortunately is not an actor, and as a result his film, directed by Michael Oliver, comes across as a foolish vanity production.

Also opening today at the Sunset 5 is Russ Meyer’s deliriously erotic and sadistic 1965 “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,” in which three dangerous dominatrix types zero in on a rich but crippled Dirty Old Man and his two dim sons at a desert ranch.

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