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Bottom-feeder J-Horror (Mad Spoilers!)


Sometimes I wonder about Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It seemed at some points of this movie that he had absolute contempt for his audience.
All of the artful touches of this movie go out the window with some of the most overly-stupid things in the history of Japanese horror.
Consider the following:
1) An insane traffic cop, who just so happens to be chillin' on the couch in a psychiatrist's office, starts freaking out and has to have a towel shoved in his face.
2) The female ghost looks so much like modern-era Michael Jackson that it is unintentionally rediculous.
3) The female ghost starts coming through a wall like f'ing Cookie Monster.
4) The female ghost floats on rails and wires and then, as if emulating the uber-stupid final 5 seconds of The Matrix, zooms off over Tokyo.
5) This movie features human corpses that decay in perfect neatness, leaving grizzle-free bones and no lingering odor. This is the kind of plot hole I'd expect in a 1940s adventure film.
6) Like the worst psychological-thrillers, the film shows us dead end stuff that is merely dismissed as "in the guy's mind". We see him clearly take Harue to the train station . . . but we later find out that it was all in his head and she's been rotting in the bedroom for 6 months.
7) A ghost kills a guy by Greg Louganis-ing him into a rice bowl of crappy salt water.
8) Has anyone seen salt water factor into a lame-plot point so bad since Ringu 2?

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Yeah is true. but the movie after all,have a great meaning.

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I'm afraid Kurosawa and J-horror go separate ways. The movie is wonderful! No, the bottom feeder of J-horror are probably the crop of american movies made by japanese directors. But i'm sure is not their fault...

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Of course. I noticed those things. Are they enough to kill the entire film? Not at all. The stuff you listed here is like going on a date with a supermodel, then ditching her because of her hair color.

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Naroon & Jorg: can you answer the OPs questions though? I really liked this movie, but the things he/she brought up confused me as well. I was hoping someone here would post an analysis that would help me make sense of this flick. I have walked away with a feeling that yes, this was a great movie, but WTF???? I will watch it again; but I do suppose it's a little comforting to see that most everybody was as baffled as I was.

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I don't agree with all the op had to say, but he clearly missed the god awful green-screen car sequence where you could actually see the folds in the green-screen

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Don't all Japanese female ghosts look like Michael Jackson?
If you mean they are pale skinned and have long black hair?

For me it makes me shiver.

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