Uzumaki
2000 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. He seems unaware of her presence and she thinks no more of it. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possesed with different forms of spirals, one student seems to be mutating into a snail, another's hair becomes strangely medusa-like. The entire town becomes possesed.
Direction Higuchinsky
Cast Eriko Hatsune · Fhi Fan · Hinako Saeki · Ren Osugi · Masami Horiuchi · Taro Suwa · Keiko Takahashi · Shin Eun-kyung · Toru Tezuka · Sadao Abe · Asumi Miwa
Soundtrack Tetsuro Kashibuchi · Keiichi Suzuki
Screenplay Takao Nitta · Chika Yasuo · Junji Ito
Cinematography Gen Kobayashi
Original title Uzumaki
Also known as Spiral · Vortex
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472 votes (FilmAffinity)
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