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Over Your Dead Body (2014) Takashi Miike Horror!
Over Your Dead Body (2014) Takashi Miike Horror!
1814DVD
 

Takashi Miike's Darkly Conceived Horror Project

      

original Japanese title: KUIME

director: Takashi Miike
starring: Ko Shibasaki · Ebizo Ichikawa · Miho Nakanishi · Hideaki Ito · Hitomi Katayama · Toshie Negishi

      

This is one of 100 films directed by Takashi Miike since 1991, made in tandem with AS THE GODS WILL in 2014. It's a drastic departure from his Yazuka movies, but conceptually similar to his later Chambara films. Critics have recognized the AUDITION quality in this remarkable, darkly conceived horror film. Here is the story of an actress named Oiwa, playing the lead in a theatrical adaptation of the classic ghost story "Yotsuya Kaidan." She pulls some strings to get her lover cast in the play, even though he's relatively unknown (and possibly out of his element). Other cast members are jealous of the situation and some of them also harbor a deep sexual attraction towards Oiwa. As their stage performances intensify, it becomes clear that an unhealthy lust is also amplifying in their personal lives which results in gruesome mayhem.

Director Takashi Miike is in top form here, more comfortable than usual behind the camera, as he surrounds himself with a troupe of familiar actors from his most successful productions. For example, lead actress Ko Shibasaki is one of Japan's top actresses today (after starring in blockbuster hits GO, DORORO and BATTLE ROYALE, et al) but - in the beginning - she was essentially a Miike discovery (ONE MISSED CALL). Popular actor Hideaki Ito initially found stardom with Miike's SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO and the more recent LESSON OF EVIL. Co-star Ebizo Ichikawa also worked with Miike for his HARI-KIRI after starring in SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO.

     

    

A Japanese film with English subtitles; widescreen format (16:9), totally uncut version (94 min.), DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC, playable on any American machine. Extras include theatrical trailer.

   

Graphic Violence/Nudity/Sexual Brutality:
For Adult Audiences

 
$24.95
 
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