When maverick director Mike Takashi unleashed this stylish slice of extreme cinema upon his unsuspecting audience few were ready for what they were about to see. Since then this twisted vision of a hell on earth has become a notorious critically acclaimed classic. Following his son's advice widower Shigeharu Aoyama decides that it's time to look for a new wife. By devising a plan to audition for the part of a female lead in a non-existent production he uses his professional position to track her down. Among the many applicants he is struck by the mysterious... charms of Asami a quiet 24-year-old woman. It transpires that Asami is responsive to his attentions and Aoyama becomes convinced that she is the woman for him. But when he asks her to accompany him on a romantic holiday things take a dark and disturbing turn. Soon Aoyama will discover that there is a side to Asami that he could never have imagined even in his most depraved nightmares. [show more]
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Takashi Miike directs this Japanese horror. Seven years on from the death of his wife, Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) decides it is time to remarry. A friend suggests that he might seek out potential spouses by holding auditions for a non-existent video project and this leads him to meet Asami Yamasaki (Eihi Shiina), a 24-year-old dancer who captivates him immediately. Aoyama begins seeing her on a regular basis, and thinks that she really might be the woman for him, but his friend Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura) becomes suspicious, and after some investigation discovers the young woman is not at all who she claims to be...
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