Modern Japanese Horror

[Richard Romeo]

I saw Spiral last weekend--it's definitely worth a look--a partial 
explanation is alluded to in the movie, but it's sorta like the Chipco 
vignettes in Vineland ( i was re-reading parts of vineland recently). Some 
real interesting movies coming out of japan--much more clever than what's 
mass -produced here.

Rich




>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
>To: davidmmonroe at yahoo.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Modern Japanese Horror
>Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 11:46:09 -0500
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>This one has some Pynchon resonances.  It sounds like loads of "fun."
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>http://www.sundancechannel.com/feature/?sContent=May2002
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>Spiral
>90 MINS, Color
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>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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