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The Aoyama family loses the mother/wife to an illness. Leaving the father (Shigeharu) and the son (Shigehiko) on their own. Years after her death, the two return home from fishing one day and Shigehiko informs his father that he no longer looks young and that he should consider remarrying. He runs the idea past one of his fellow employee's, Yasuhisa. Yasuhisa comes up with the idea to hold an audition for his new wife. But they'll say it's only for a movie that's in the making. Yasuhisa collectes tons of applications for Shigeharu to look through. Out of the bunch, he's only allowed to pick thirty. A week later, the time arrives for the auditions. As several come and go, Asami walks in the door. Shigeharu is instantly impressed with her. Yasuhisa disagrees with his choice, but he calls her anyway and sets up a date.
After the date, Asami wishes that Shigeharu would keep in touch with her. Shigeharu tells Yasuhisa all about the date with her. Yasuhisa tried to get in touch with some of the references she had left with the two during the audition. The places were either unknown are the actual person had been missing for quite some time. Yasuhisa has Shigeharu promise he won't call her again. He keeps his promise for the next few days, resisting every temptation he has to call her. He eventually cracks one day at work and gives her a call. They schedule another date. More dates are had afterwards and by the time he knew it, he was addicted to her.
One night they take a trip to an unknown location. While making plans to go out on the town, Asami shuts off the light and starts to take off her clothes. He tells him to love her and only her. They make love for the first time, but when he awakes, Asami is gone. The front desk of the hotel calls to inform him that she left quite awhile ago. The next morning, he confronts Yasuhisa about the incident. When he refuses to help him, Shigeharu takes it upon himself to find her. He firsts visits the ballet school she attended. While talking to the teacher, it shows how he abused her when she was a child.
Stop number two was at a place she said she worked at three days a week. When he arrives there, one of the men in the building inform him that the establishment went out of business over a year ago. It seems as if the owner of the store was mutilated beyond belief. When the doctors tried to piece her body back together, a number of extra body parts were found. Three fingers, an ear and a tongue. The police never did find the murderer. When he makes it back him, he poors himself a drink. But soon finds himself insanely tired and weak. When he stands up for a few seconds, he soon falls to the ground.
Asami and Shigeharu are shown back at their last two dates. But the conversation has completely changed. After explaining to him all the bad things that have happened, they end up back at her house. Asami tries to go down on him, but he stops her as she changes into Shigeharu's secretary, and then into his maid. When he tries to escape, he trips over a large bag. When he opens it up, a person crawls out. Missing three fingers, an ear and a tongue. Asami is shown in the background puking in a dog bowl, which she feeds to the beaten man that crawled out of the bag. Now at the ballet studio, the teacher is shown once again abusing Asami. But she got the last laugh as she rips his head off with a long string of fishing wire.
Shigeharu is back on the floor of his home where he first fell. Asami is seen in another room getting some protective gear on. She tells him that he drank a poison that numbed his entire body, but his nerves are still able to feel the pain she's about to inflict on him. First she injects some sort of liquid into his tongue. Then begins to put acupuncture needles in his chest and stomach, then moves onto the eyes. After that, she starts to cut off his feet with the fishing wire. By the time she gets the first one off, Shigehiko walks in. With his father still not being able to move or speak, he's unable to warn him about the danger he just stepped in to.
Unpredictable would be the one word to explain this film. The last forty minutes of the film throws you off track a numerous amount of times. A great story that shows how a man can fall in love with such a troubled girl, which turns into how females get mistreated when film producers only call them back from an audition to use them for sex. Every character is presented perfectly. All have a nice background told about them, but are never really developed fully. The way it's shown makes it so the viewer can think for himself. It's not specifically telling you who's the real good guy or bad guy, or girl for that matter. Except for Asami. She's shown to be this innocent girl that was tortured her entire life. Which is true, but turns out she isn't so innocent in the end.
Acting was great. Same with the violence and gore. Every brutal thing Asami did to Shigeharu looked excellent, especially the foot decapitation. The make-up crew that worked on the man in the bag did such a wonderful job. He wasn't zombified or looked like he just got thrown in there. Running close to two hours long, this film doesn't get boring for one minute. Even with little to no action for the first half, it keeps the interest high. The film itself was based on a novel, but stayed quite true to the original in the adaptation. Until the ending, where it just got a bit wild. A must have for any Japanese horror fan, or a fan of Takashi Miike.
Final Conclusion: 10/10
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