Pinocchio's body erupts in an inexplicable metamorphosis and it becomes clear that his modifications were much more involved and esoteric than simple memory loss.
Meanwhile, Pinocchio’s head director, companied with his female secretary who spits out cherries into a bowl which he eats from, plots to kill him.
Instead, she forcefeeds him trash before shackling him to a pyramidal concrete block where she tortures him back at her place, companied with a partner (who was tasked by the head director to find Pinocchio).
Pinocchio’s memories eventually return and he escapes, running through the streets at high-speed as crowds of horrified onlookers watch on.
However, Pinocchio reaches to the factory outside, confronts his developers after the head director shouts at him to die, charging at the three at high speed before killing him by disembowelment and running off, leaving his horrified secretary and partner behind where she starts convulsing afterwards.
964 Pinocchio was created on a low-budget using guerrilla-filmmaking techniques, with scenes in Tokyo utilizing real crowds of people rather than professional actors.
Director Shozin Fukui stated in a 2007 interview which was included as a bonus feature in the DVD release of the film that they used an old wheelchair as a makeshift dolly.
... You're sure to be completely exhausted when the end credits finally grace the screen ... the constant presence of screaming, yelling, grunting and whining bears its own unique sense of torture", comparing it to films like Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Electric Dragon 80.000 V.[7] A 2022 retrospective article by Collider described it as "an uncommon and unparalleled riff on the timeless fairy-tale".