Uzumaki (Film)
- Eriko Hatsune as Kirie Goshima
- Fhi Fan as Shuichi Saito
- Hinako Saeki as Kyoko Sekino
- Eun- Kyung Shin as Chie Marayama
- Keiko Takahashi as Yukie Saito
- Ren Osugi as Toshio Saito
- Sent as Furada
- Masami Horiuchi as Tamura
Uzumaki (Japanese涡 巻; German spiral), also under the title reference Uzumaki - known Out of this world, is a Japanese film from 2000, based on the manga series Uzumaki - based Spiral Into Horror by Junji Ito. The director of the horror film led Higuchinsky, the screenplay by Takao Nitta and Chika Yasuo.
Action
In the Japanese town Kurouzu (黒 涡, the characters mean " black " or " eddy " ) lives the student Kirie who is hit by a mysterious wind. Only gradually does Kirie in the place true mysterious changes. The father of her best friend developed an obsession for spirals. He films everything looks like spirals, collects and steals all spiral -shaped objects and yells to his wife, when the spiral starts eating.
Meanwhile, a student with mucus appears covered in the classroom, another falls through the staircase and lies dead on a helical floor, while the hair of a schoolgirl growing up and pirouettes. The aforementioned father locks himself in the dryer and is found as a dead spiral - his wife then developed a phobia of spirals and gets rid of her spiral body parts.
A journalist tries out the causes of the changes and comes across a legend in connection with a dragon or worm that is in the lake, on which the village lies, live - but before he learns more accurate, he also dies. As well as increasing all the protagonists die, the perspective changes - so far it has largely Kiries view: In rice reporters report concludes, as all the inhabitants die either as spirals or turn into snails and high crawl houses.
Backgrounds of the action
Since the film was made before the manga had been fully completed, and comic strips have different ends.
Director Higuchinsky omitted explicit explanations for the collapse of the evil in the small village. It comes slowly and destroyed all the inhabitants - even at the end of the causes remain unknown except for a few hints during the search of the journalist. At the beginning and end Kirie reported that ereigne in the city strange. The event is thus itself into a spiral and is likely to repeat so again and again.
Production and publication
The film was made at Studio Omega Micott and was the feature film debut for director Higuchinsky ( Akihiro Higuchi ). Responsible producers were Sumiji Miyake, Dai Miyazaki, Mitsuru Kurosawa and Toyoyuki Yokohama. The camera led Gen Kobayashi. The title song " Raven " comes from the band Do As Infinity and the music was composed by Keiichi Suzuki and Tetsuro Kashibuchi. Uzumaki ran in Japanese theaters on February 11, 2000.
The film was released in German on September 13, 2001 by Rapid Eye Movies and came out on DVD on 22 November 2004. In Hong Kong, the film was released under the title "Vortex ".
Reception
In the magazine AnimaniA the film was described as a successful implementation of the manga template that can preserve by staging in steady semi-darkness, the eerie atmosphere of the original. The actress Eriko Hatsune, which was first seen in a starring role and a movie, but speak often monotonous and gesticulate too strong. Nevertheless, these weaknesses deceptive help to enhance the half - unreal atmosphere.