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Detective Kajii and his partner have to investigate the murder of a man named Kimura. Kajii suspects a beautiful young woman, Kazumi. Unfortunately for him, he falls in love with her. Then the madness starts...

Sexy horrors from Hitoshi Ishikawa, veteran director of many Japanese pink films. This new thriller easily equals the overall sickness of some of his former work, when he directed movies under the pseudonym "Gô Ijûin" (together with two other directors, Genji Nakamura and Ryûichi Hiroki). Those who liked "Audition" will probably enjoy "Blood and Ecstasy/Chi to Ekusutashii" as well. Those with a weak stomach beware...

Teenage girl Hinako returns to her home village on the Japanese island of Shikoku (which she left for Tokyo with her parents when she was a little girl) for the first time. Back then, a girl named Sayori and a boy named Fumiya were her best friends. Now Hinako meets Fumiya again, but Sayori died when she was 16. Hinako soon discovers that strange things are going on. Sayori's mother, a priestess, wants to bring her daughter back from the dead. 88 temples circle the fog-shrouded island as a seal to protect its inhabitants from the dead. But by traversing the temples in reverse order for every year of a deceased person's life, the seals can be undone and the dead person will come back to life. And Sayori's mother is about to travel the temples for the 16th time...

Shikoku is the smallest of the four big Japanese islands (the others are Honshû, Kyûshû, and Hokkaidô). Written in Kanji, "Shikoku" means "island of the four lands", but the title of this film changes the first Kanji - you still read it "Shikoku", but now it means "island of the dead". This island is still a remote place far away from the great Japanese cities, there are large, fog-shrouded forests and mountains and it makes a great setting for an eerie ghost story. The film was released together with Hideo Nakata's "The Ring 2" and produced by the same company, Asmik-Ace Entertainment. Beautifully filmed and filled with atmosphere and some very spooky moments, this is a highly recommended modern "shinrei-mono" (ghost story).

Welcome to the most insane family ever. Teenage girl Keiko seduces her own father for money. Son Takuya gets beaten by his classmates everyday and therefor tortures his mother with a whip. Mother goes on a drug trip to escape this everyday hell. One day, a mysterious visitor joins the family, and things become even stranger. Father Kiyoshi plans to film his son while he's being beaten, intending to broadcast the tape. But then, he prefers to kill and rape (in this order) his female partner (who was working at the same TV station) instead. If that weren't enough, he becomes necrophile... Influenced by the visitor, the family finally kind of finds together again in the sickest way imaginable.

After such cult favorites as "FUDOH: THE NEW GENERATIONS" a.k.a. "GOKUDÔ SENGOKUSHI: FUDÔ" and "AUDITION", Japanese director Takashi Miike delivers again with this incredible (?) movie. Over-the-top in every sense of the word, filled with bad taste and crude humor in the extreme, this shot-on-digital-video satire (kind of) is destined to become another cult classic. It is the sixth and final part of a series called "Lovecinema" (the movies don't have anything in common except for a love thematic). Despite the direct-to-video production, "VISITOR Q" enjoyed a short theatrical run in Japan. WARNING: Only suitable for those who are into Japanese extreme cinema!!