Kôji Yakusho plays a detective whose investigation into a series of murders is thrown off course when all the evidence points back at him. An obsessive cameraman (played by Shinya Tsukamoto of Tetsuo fame) explores a vast netherworld underneath Tokyo, in which he finds a mute naked woman with vampiric tendencies and brings her to the surface to live in his flat. Marebito (2004)īetween Grudge films, Takashi Shimizu directed this bizarre low-budget, semi-experimental plunge into HP Lovecraft territory. A wave of suicides turns out to be not entirely unconnected to a mysterious website, deviant glam rockers and long strips of human skin.
Suicide Club (2001)įew opening scenes are more startling than that of Sion Sono’s surreal shocker, in which 54 schoolgirls cheerfully link hands and throw themselves under an oncoming train. Suicide Club … ‘Not for the squeamish.’ Photograph: AF archive/Alamy 16.
