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| Category | Foreign Films DVDs, Horror Movies, Thriller Videos, Mystery, Supernatural, Japanese, Small Towns, Small Town Life | | Starring | Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Ren Osugi, Hinako Saeki | | Director | Higuchinsky | | Source Writer | Junji Ito |
English Subtitles Based on a Japanese comic book, Higuchinsky's UZUMAKI follows the residents of a remote town as they inexplicably become obsessed with spiral shapes. Kirie (Eriko Hatsune), a young schoolgirl, first notices this phenomena when she encounters her boyfriend's father (Ren Osugi), maniacally videotaping a snail crawling up a wall. Later, her brooding beau, Shuichi (Fhi Fan), reveals that the odd behavior goes further--his father has filled an entire room with various spiral objects. And that's merely the beginning of the insanity--soon one classmate arrives at school covered in thick, clear slime (and only on rainy days) and the leader of a girl gang begins wearing her hair in gravity-defying swirly strands. Before long, this growing madness leads to a series of gruesome and unbelievably bizarre deaths. Are Kirie and Shuichi next?
Unlike most horror films, UZUMAKI is almost entirely unconcerned with explaining its strange scenes; the movie's mono-named director is preoccupied with "how," not "why," these sequences happen and revels in their ridiculousness. The ensuing deaths and transformations--and there are many--are simultaneously amazing, silly, and disturbing. An absurdist thriller of the highest order, UZUMAKI literally wears its weirdness on its twisted sleeve. Theatrical Release Date: May 3, 2002 (NY)
Released in Japan in 2000. Uzumaki Reviews: "...[The filmmakers] capably deliver the swelling freakery..."
-- Elvis Mitchell, New York Times
This is the only Fhi Fan video. Uzumaki | List Price | $24.95 (You save $8.66) | | Studio | Eastern Star | | Orig Year | 2002 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  76438  | | CD Universe Part number | 7970728 | | Catalog number | 70036 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 13, 2009 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Vortex; Spiral | | Running Time | 90 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Subtitled |
Uzumaki DVD Region 1
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Subtitles - English
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