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5 June 1999 (Japan)
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Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception...
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(Credited cast) | Gorô Inagaki | ... | Toshiya Saga |
| Miho Kanno | ... | Yuka Irie |
| Takeshi Masu | ... | Jissoji |
| Ken Utsui | ... | Sakurai |
| Yuki Watanabe | ... | Mitsui |
| Shigemitsu Ogi | ... | Kuraishi |
| Kenta Satoi | ||
| Noborou Shirai | ||
| Tadao Nakamura | ||
| Katsumi Takahashi | ||
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| Masahiro Komoto | ||
| Tadao Nakamaru | ||
 | Albert Smith | ... | Bartender |
| Takashi Ukaji | ||
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I caught this on the off chance there'd be a connection with the television series, Saimin, whose final three episodes I'd happened to see. Aside from hypnotism, though, there's no discernible connection. Even on evidence just of those three episodes, the series may well have been superior, yet the film's a guilty-pleasure B-grade page-turner for about an hour before it implodes trying too hard to resolve things. Ringu one through three, Tomie, and now Saimin make three nearly interchangeable, if only in appearance, white-clad, bushy haired, big-eyed monster women. Could there be some myth here I'm not in on? (I'm tempted to include ...Jailhouse 41's Matsu, as well, even though there's no supernatural, she's victim, and her film's feminist in the end.) The Saimin film does provide some arresting images, usually with its hypnosis-inspired self-mutilations. In the single most shattering of these, really a throwaway that you could cut and do nothing to the plot, a brightly daylit man mistakes a gas stove burner for a basin and, calmly, washes his face in its flame.