From legendary filmmaker Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Audition) comes a classic tale of love, honour and revenge amidst the fall of the Samurai in 17th Century Japan. Seeking a noble end, poverty-stricken Samurai Hanshiro requests to commit ritual suicide at the House of Liu, run by headstrong Kageyu. But after being told a tragic story of another Samurai’s agonizing suicide, that of Hanshiro’s close friend Motome, Hanshiro sets in a motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of this feudal lord.
The power of suggestion. Madness. Terror. Murder. In the tradition of Seven and Silence Of The Lambs comes this genuinely spine-tingling horror/thriller from one of Japan's most talked about filmmakers Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Set in and around a bleak decaying Tokyo a series of murders have been committed by average ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their horrifying actions. Following the only link-a mysterious stranger who had brief contact with each perpetrator/victim-detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho places his own sanity on the line as he tries to end the wave of inexplicable terror.
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