Shôjo jigoku ichi kyû kyû kyû

Over the course of a couple of years, I've been moseying through a top 50 list of most disturbing movies. I was already exactly halfway through so I chose to watch this one because it's short. And thank god it was. As of today, this is honest to god one of my least favorite films I have ever had the displeasure of watching. I knew it was going to be an unpleasant watch but I was at least expecting some good gore effects. No. None to be had. This is essentially a very filthy (in both senses of the word) fetish film with horrible production values, abysm acting, a ham fisted "twist", and needless debauchery of the most unappetizing, unerotic kind. Thinking about this film makes me angry. One big pile of crap.

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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.

People treat this movie as some profound masterpiece but that's far from my interpretation. This is a movie that has a few ideas put into it that are there to be weird and unusual. Low budget, how does one make something interesting? Put a weird girl and a doll into it. I feel as though that was the direction the movie was going for with everything it did, it doesn't have anything interesting to say and the dialogue and acting is laughable. This can be treated as a comedy, and I'd rather it be treated that than some "underground masterpiece". Weird to be weird, movie to be movie, nothing more.

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.

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?