Shôjo jigoku ichi kyû kyû kyû

The film is a film that touches on individual alienation and progresses at this point. The disappearance of values, nihilism, represents the main genre of the film. We see the situation with the competition within Japan and the masses being under the influence of nihilism. We watch this pitiful situation from the perspective of a young girl. The film had a full expressionist atmosphere, but it could not fully cover these mistakes. The mediocre acting of the film and its inability to draw you into its world made me dislike this expressionism effect, but I really admire the director's brave stage action, I have seen this current situation in his other films and he can do it without any fear of it.

If you are a fan of Martyrs, you will most likely adore this flick. The film is trying to show in multiple ways the ominous reality that is hidden under the bed. We have the main girl and her a bit, chubby classmate. She is always sad over ridiculous reasons, how for example pretty males do not like her, while the main character is silent about her actual seriously disturbing life, of her abusive father, disabled sister, that is constant basics being sexually assaulted by the father, and her mother that left them. We just feel horrible for the main character, and her sister that are literally going through hell. All male characters are monsters, and all-female characters are exploited by adult men. The film is very interesting and very depressing. The first time when i watched it, i teared up in the end, when our hero kills the homeless woman, when her "baby - toy", got broken and thrown by the two villainous men, and the heroic girl did not know what occurred.

This film when watching it for the first time, just like the Red Rooms, is a very disturbing, well-made movie. People that rated this film 1 star clearly rated it because of it's shock value, and not following the message this film is trying to indicate.

Every time I watch one of this Japanese wierd movies I tell myself that it must be the wiredest movie ever made. But I am wrong and the next movie surprises me with all director's imagination. Tetsuo was pretty strange and all this started with Visitor Q. What's going on in Japan?

Why would you even watch a film in another language without subtitles or dubbing? No wonder all these reviewers are claiming it's difficult to follow - well of course it is! Why not get a subtitled copy? I found it easy enough to find and I wasn't even trying.

I thought this was good but I think it could've been awesome if they completely rewrote the ending, perhaps delved a little deeper into the home situation and didn't blur the sex scenes but to be fair, enough happened in the movie's time frame to keep me interested and entertained for the full hour and 5.

If you like Asian cinema, give this a try, it's definitely worth a watch.

Misaki has reached her breaking point, coping with her father using her bed ridden & horribly disfigured sister as a sex toy and also by being terrorized by two different secret admirers. Yamanouchi delivers a bleak & mean spirited gem.