was the japanese girl dead?

I agree with you entirely! She was dead (i think it was a drug overdose)and it was really sad/disturbing sadistic that they did that. In fact, im glad somebody mentioned this after so long, because i was checking the messages and everybody was prasing this movie but nobody seemed to care about this part. I found this movie interesting, e.g. the funny singing and dancing and the guy turning into a fish like sea monster thing in the water. But there were a few things about this movie which absolutely disgusted me. First up, the fact that after the porn star was dead, inseatd of sending her back home or giving her a funeral they continued to use her for porn. Ok, she was a porn star and stuff, but she was DEAD, and even so deserves some respect, something the porn industry obviously doesn care about. But the other thing which disgusted me was the fact that the good samaritan girl who had found her (and you think, its good, somebody actually cares), turns out to be just as bad as the guy and the porn bosses, because instead of being disgusted or running away from the whole scene, she stood and watched(voyerism), and even seemed to be getting pleasure from it. Then at the end he sticks it into her mouth. I didn't think she enjoyed it at all, because when he did that she was standing absoluetly still with no reaction. One of the messages in this movie seems to be that women are treated like sex-objects(both the porn star and the taiwanese girl), and they get drawn into things like drugs, porn etc. I was so depressed aftet aht ending, i really felt like writing to the director and complaining. I hope we are not the only 2 who felt this way, i sincerely hope there are more poeple. if not, then God help our sick demented society.