Hakkyousuru kuchibiru (2000)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Hirohisa Sasaki

Writer:

Hiroshi Takahashi (writer)

Release Date:

26 February 2000 (Japan)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Plot:

After her brother is accused of murdering four people, his sister, desperate to prove his innocence...

Plot Keywords:

Psychic | Ghost | Japan | FBI | Humiliation

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Hitomi Miwa	...	Satomi Kurahashi
Kazuma Suzuki	...	Michio Kurahashi
Ren Ôsugi	...	Colonel
Hiroshi Abe	...	Narimoto
Hijiri Natsukawa	...	Kaori Kurahashi
Yoshiko Yura	...	Etsuko Mamiya
Tomomi Kuribayashi	...	Lucy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Reila Aphrodite
Shirô Shimomoto
Ikko Suzuki	...	Police inspector (as Ikkô Suzuki)
Kasumi Takahashi
Yumi Yoshiyuki

Also Known As:

Crazy Lips

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

Japan:R-15

Company:

Omega Project

Movie Connections:

Followed by Chi wo sû uchû (2001)

A real charmer

I am increasingly finding myself drawn to Japanese movies since apparently there's nothing much left here in the good old USA except to remake old films, and this particular one looked intriguing. And it is, to a point. I perceive the Japanese to be a very polite and mannered society but their horror films don't pull any punches when it comes to outright nastiness and ugliness, and this one is no exception. We have incest, necrophilia, a scalping, tons of mayhem, a few headless schoolgirls wandering about, and on the other hand we have newsmen dancing around in their underwear on TV and such, plus the main actress sings a song while being shadowed by a goofy FBI agent named Lucy. Whoa. So this is meant to be a horror comedy, or so I guess. It's certainly weird and I can't really say past a certain point that it makes much sense. The premise is that the brother of these two girls is apparently a serial killer and the press and police are hounding the girls & their mother to tell them where he is. Along comes an evil psychic and her nasty sidekick and insinuate themselves into the house and family, to take advantage of them in more ways than one. And then we have two strange FBI agents who are supposedly on the side of the family. Whoa. This is ultra-strange and hard to follow but for the money it beats the pants off most American horror films of this day & age, so if you're not too worried about this making perfect sense then check it out, it's a weird & wild ride.