Uzumaki (Japanese: うずまき , lit. Spiral) is a 2000 Japanese supernatural horror film based on the manga of the same name by Junji Ito. The feature film directorial debut of Higuchinsky, it stars Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki and Shin Eun-kyung. The film takes place in a town plagued by a mysterious curse involving spirals. As the film was produced while the manga was still being writt and released, it departs from the story of the original work and features a differt ding.
The film was backed by the company Omega Micott, who released it in Japan on a double bill with Tomie: Replay, another film based on a manga by Ito. Simultaneously, Uzumaki received a limited release in the American city of San Francisco. It received mixed reviews from critics.
High school studt Kirie Goshima's first glimpse that something is awry in the small town of Kurouzu-cho comes wh her boyfrid Shuichi Saito's father 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 unusual obsession causes him to abandon his responsibilities at work; he proclaims that a spiral is the highest form of art, and frantically creates whirlpools in his miso soup wh he runs out of spiral-patterned kamaboko. He th decides to film himself crawling into a washing machine, where he dies.
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It is not long before the tire town is infected by the otherworldly spirals. Tamura, a reporter, is intrigued by Shuichi's father's suicide and becomes obsessed with the case. Meanwhile, Shuichi's mother, who has be in hospital since her husband's death, has developed a severe phobia of spirals. She cuts off her hair and fingertips due to their spiral-like shapes, and Shuichi tells the hospital staff to eliminate anything spiral-shaped so his mother may not counter them. One night, after a millipede tries to crawl into her ear while she is asleep, Shuichi's mother, the ctipede claims to be her husband and turns into a spiral, driving her to commit suicide.
At Kirie's high school, a studt named Katayama begins to walk at a snail's pace, dripping in a slimy substance and only attding school on rainy days. He and other members of the studt body gradually begin to sprout shells, drink water in copious amounts, and crawl on the walls of the school. Kirie's classmate, Sekino, begins to grow her hair in exaggerated curls, taking over her mind and the minds of other female studts. Whirl-like clouds appear in the sky, and during funerals, they are accompanied by smoky, ghost-like faces of victims who perished in spiral-related ways.
Evtually, the tire town succumbs to the curse of the spiral—Kirie's father takes a drill to his eye after obsessively creating spiral shaped ceramics; a news crew reporting on the phomon lose themselves in a tunnel, only to be later found as humanoid yet snail-like corpses; and Sekino's snake-like curls grow to an abnormal height, wrapping around a telephone pole and cables electrocuting herself. A boy named Mitsuru who is obsessed with Kirie to be his girlfrid throws himself in front of Inspector Tamura's car and is twisted around the axle; the car collides with a pole, causing Tamura's head to hit the windshield, leaving a spiral-shaped crack. Wh Kirie and Shuichi decide to search for Kirie's father, Shuichi's body twists into a spiral-like contortion. He crawls towards Kirie, asking her to become a spiral too.
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Ito had stated that for most of his stories, he starts with a visual image and builds a story around the picture.
For Uzumaki, he had a differt inspiration of wanting to make a film about people who lived in a traditional Japanese row-house and seeing what happed.
Wh drawing the row-houses, he found himself drawing a very long house that coiled into a spiral to fit on his page.
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While filming the television series Eko Eko Azarak, director Higuchinsky met Kgo Kaji who he proposed the idea of making a film to.
Higuchinsky stated that he originally wanted to make a film like Star Wars but realized that because I'm Japanese, I should do something differt.
Higuchinsky thought the manga was brilliant and asked Kgo Kaji to adapt the film, finding out that the manga was already in the process of being made into a film and that producers were looking for a director.
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Higuchinsky described the lure of Uzumaki using the Japanese word kikai, which translates to strange and mysterious things (or people), and that the allure of Uzumaki is not that the uzumaki itself is scary but rather the changes in the people caught up in it.
The original production of the film was going to be an indepdt production and would be part of an anthology film, but during production, Toei Animation decided to have it become a bigger film.
The film was backed by Toyoyuki Yokohama's Omega Project, a company that married Japanese and foreign funding to make J-horror films for an international market.
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A film based on the manga Tomie, also by Ito. The film was released concurrtly in the United States as it was in Japan with a limited run in San Francisco.
On review aggregator website Rott Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 56% based on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 6.09/10. The site's critics conssus reads, Uzumaki uses its creepy, David Lynch-inspired atmospherics to effectively build a sse of dread, but ultimately fails to do anything with it.
In his review of the film for The New York Times, critic Elvis Mitchell noted the way the film develops mood, finding it part of the cycle of Japanese films like Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure and Hideo Nakata's Ring as vivid, state-of-the-art scare films that move so swiftly that psychological underpinnings are a luxury.
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Variety's Dnis Harvey described the film as intriguing, if ultimately unsatisfying, and criticized a perceived lack of atmosphere betwe set pieces, along with its typically bland, schoolgirlish heroine.
Kim Morgan of The Oregonian described the film as beautiful, cold, oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly; she wrote that it contains many creatively terrifying and effectively gross sequces that stand on their own beautifully, but lamted that it doesn't flow into a consistt building of terror.
Ross Williams of Film Threat praised the film's sound design and cheesy, yet at the same time impressive and effective special effects, writing: While not as effectively creepy as The Ring, [Uzumaki] undoubtedly deserves to be watched.
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Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club noted the style of the film, opining that kinetic shooting style doesn't pause for anything; like a lot of music-video and commercial directors, his achievemt is better considered shot-by-shot than as a whole.
AllMovie's Josh Ralske gave the film a score of three-and-a-half stars out of five, calling it visually imaginative and gagingly offbeat horror film, but its willful goofiness and unresolved story line doesn't offer much in the way of psychological resonance.
Higuchinsky stated that, since the film's release, he has received fan mail from Europe, which made him particularly happy as it was his dream to use film as a way to overcome national borders and have my movies watched by people all over the world. I think that these fans focus not on the story but on the simple images, they sse something through the visuals.
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