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| Directed by | Higuchinsky |
| Produced by | Sumiji Miyake Dai Miyazaki |
| Written by | Takao Nitta Chika Yasuo Kengo Kaji (supervising screenwriter) Junji Ito (manga) |
| Starring | Eriko Hatsune Fhi Fan Hinako Saeki Eun-Kyung Shin |
| Distributed by | Lighthouse Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  February 11, 2000 September 13, 2001 |
| Running time | 90 min. Junji Ito (伊藤潤二 Itō Junji, July 1963 -) is an author of Japanese horror Manga. is a Japanese actress. She was born in Nara, JapanHer most famous role was probably Sadako Yamamura in Rasen, a sequel to the horror Ring or Ringu Events 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Events 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | $1 million |
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Uzumaki (うずまき? "Spiral") is a Japanese horror movie directed by Higuchinsky. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Horror films are Movies that strive to elicit Fear, Horror and terror responses from viewers Uzumaki, released in 2000, is based on Junji Ito's episodic manga of the same name. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Junji Ito (伊藤潤二 Itō Junji, July 1963 -) is an author of Japanese horror Manga. ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly is a horror Manga by Junji Ito, serialized in Shogakukan 's Big Comic Spirits.
The plot concerns a town infected with malevolent spirals. This abstract concept manifests in grotesque ways, such as a teenager's long hair beginning to curl and take over her mind, or a corpse wound around itself.
Among many bizarre features of the film is a heavy treatment with green colour filters, aping the style of the colour plates in the manga, and the fact that the trailer for the film is a pastiche of Jean-Luc Godard's seminal trailer for À bout de souffle (1960). The word pastiche describes a literary or other artistic Genre. Jean-Luc Godard (French ʒɑ̃lyk gɔˈdaʀ (born on December 3 1930 is a French and Swiss Filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague Breathless (French À bout de souffle; literally "out of breath" is a 1960 Film directed by Jean-Luc Godard Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
The movie covers some of the notable stories from the manga, with varying degrees of faithfulness. The movie and the manga have different endings due to the movie being filmed before the manga had finished.
Its theme song was "Raven" by the band Do As Infinity, which was on their "Yesterday & Today" single. Do As Infinity is a popular Japanese band which debuted on September 29 1999 with the release of their first single " Tangerine Dream " " Yesterday & Today " is Do As Infinity 's fourth single released in 2000
Also in 2000, Higuchinsky adapted Junji's Nagai Yume ("Long Dream") for Japanese television. Nagai Yume is a one-hour Japanese television drama broadcast in 2000 based upon a Manga by Junji Ito, and directed by Higuchinsky
Plot
High school student Kirie's first glimpse that something is awry in the small town of Kurouzu comes when the father of her nerdy best friend (Shuichi) begins to film the corkscrew patterns on a snail, he is also in the process of making a video scrap book filled with the images of anything that has a spiral or vortex shape to it. His weird obsession begins to threaten to spin dangerously out of control. He proclaims that a vortex is the highest form of art and frantically creates whirlpools in his miso soup when he runs out of naruto roll. He then becomes one with Uzumaki when he decides to crawl into a washing machine to get a 'point-of-view' shot for his film. A washing machine, or washer, is a machine designed to clean Laundry, such as Clothing, Towels and sheets The term is mostly applied
It isn't long before the entire town is hit by anything in the manner of the otherworldly whirls. Inspector Tamura, a police officer, is intrigued by Shuichi's dad's suicide and becomes obsessed with the case. Meanwhile, Kirie's high school is populated by a host of twitching teachers, preening pretty girls, and the slimy Katayama, who begins to walk at a snail's pace and only comes to school when it rains. Making matters worse, the student body is starting to sprout shells, drink water in copious amounts, and crawl on the walls of the school. Sekino, Kirie's classmate, begins to grow her hair in medusa-like curls that eventually take over not only her mind but the minds of all the girls in the school (save for Kirie). Meanwhile, in the hospital, Shuichi's mother, who was hospitalized after her husband's death, cuts off her hair and fingertips in order to get rid of anything spiral-shaped on her body, and grows so afraid of spirals that Shuichi is forced to tell the hospital to eliminate anything spiral-shaped so his mother may not encounter them (even going so far as to throwing away the cakes that Kirie had brought for her mother, since the frosting on the cakes were like whirls). Eventually Shuichi's mother succumbs to her phobia and kills herself when a millipede crawls into her ear to inhabit her cochlea and causes her to hallucinate about her husband, who tells her that "there's another vortex in the deepest part of your ear". The cochlea is the auditory portion of the Inner ear. Its core component is the Organ of Corti, the sensory organ of hearing, which is distributed along It isn't long before even the sky itself is cursed, with whirl-like clouds and the eerily smoky, ghost-like faces of the victims who perished in the grip of Uzumaki appearing during funerals.
Soon everyone in Kurouzu has been caught in the curse of the vortex--Kirie's dad, who drowns to death while gathering mud at Dragonfly Pond; the reporter who gives a special report on the horrors of the town and her crew, all of who lose themselves in a tunnel only for their corpses to be found, invaded by the spiral; Sekino, whose body has been possessed by the snake-like curls; Kirie's stalker, who throws himself in front of Inspector Tamura's car and is twisted around the axle, the impact by Tamura's head leaving a spiral crack in the windshield; a police officer, whose eye becomes a spiral that digs into itself; and even Shuichi himself, whose body twists into a spiral and becomes possessed by the spiral. Only Kirie is left in the cursed town of Kurouzu, and in the end it is unknown what happens to her.
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