Modern Japanese Horror

[David Morris]

This one has some Pynchon resonances.  It sounds like loads of "fun."

http://www.sundancechannel.com/feature/?sContent=May2002

Spiral
90 MINS, Color

Adapted from Junji Ito's manga tale, this eerie, compelling film turns 
natural phenomena into decidedly disturbing menace. Schoolgirl Kirie (Eriko 
Hatsune) lives a relatively normal life, taking care of her widowed father, 
a talented potter, and enjoying a low-key relationship with childhood 
sweetheart Shuichi (Fhi Fan). But Shuichi has a sense of foreboding about 
their quiet rural hometown: something is causing his father to obsess about 
spirals, a fixation that leads to family tragedy. Meanwhile, schoolboys are 
turning into giant snails, strange images form in the smoke from the local 
crematorium and a typhoon is spinning towards the town. Using unusual camera 
angles and overlapping images to produce a dreamlike, surreal atmosphere - 
heightened by a soundtrack of innocuous musical themes - Ukranian-born 
first-time director Higuchinsky (aka Akihiro Higuchi) presents a dizzying, 
original trip into a world where even the whorls on a fingerprint can 
provoke madness. TVMA (AC, GV) Subtitles





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