!!!HALLOWEEN HORROR MONTH!!!
Over Your Dead Body (2014)
I.M.D.B.
A star, Miyuki Goto (Ko Shibasaki) plays Oiwa, the protagonist in a new play based on the ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan. She pulls some strings to get her lover, Kosuke Hasegawa (Ebizo Ichikawa) cast in the play, even though he's a relatively unknown actor. Other performers Rio Asahina (Miho Nakanishi) and Jun Suzuki (Hideaki Ito) lust after Miyuki. Off stage the cast's possessive love and obsessions exist as reality. Trapped between the play and reality, the cast's feelings for each other are amplified. When it becomes clear that love is not meant to be both on and off stage, love turns into a grudge and crosses the blurred line between reality and fantasy.
Takeshi Miike has made a lot of movies, some good, some bad, some great, and a whole lot of bizarre. This movies blurs the line between theater and film, giving a slow paced but interesting first half, before delving into more Miike-like madness and gore in the second half. It's all very interesting and somewhat hypnotic to watch, while you wonder just what on earth is going on, but it all comes together and makes (a semblance) of sense. This is a movie that deserves a deeper, more studious review, but overall it was an interesting and enjoyable film, and very well made.
8/10
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Ko Shibasaki
