Ginî piggu 3: Senritsu! Shinanai otoko (1986)

A men gets depressed because his girlfriend has dumped him for a friend. He tries to attempt suicide but to no avail, so he decides to scare the guy that stole his girl, by throwing his own... See full summary »

Director:

Masayuki Kusumi

Stars:

Shinsuke Araki, Ivu, Masahiro Satô

Cast

Credited cast:
Shinsuke Araki	...	Masatosh Nakamura
Ivu	...	Kyoko (as Eve)
Masahiro Satô	...	Hideshi
Rie Shibata
Keisuke Shinki

Storyline

A men gets depressed because his girlfriend has dumped him for a friend. He tries to attempt suicide but to no avail, so he decides to scare the guy that stole his girl, by throwing his own guts at him.

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Plot Keywords:

attempted suicide | wrist slitting | self mutilation | severed head | 

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Genres:

Short | Comedy | Horror

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Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

English Japanese

Release Date:

10 April 1986 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Guinea Pig: He Never Dies

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sai Enterprise

Technical Specs

Runtime:

39 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

When the man who never dies says, "I will show you many painful things," his lips don't move.

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Crazy Credits

The first half of the end credits shows scenes from the movie played in reverse at high speed; the second half shows the three main characters mugging and goofing off in front of the camera.

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Connections

Edited into Ginî piggu: Zansatsu supesharu (1988)

User Reviews

Guinea Pig gets silly.

After the first two Guinea Pig movies, which could never really be described as 'fun', it comes as something of a surprise to find that the third in the series, He Never Dies, is actually quite lighthearted in comparison. It's still very gory, with some highly convincing and gruesome effects, but a juvenile sense of humour stops this one from being as grim as its predecessors.

Part three is introduced by a serious looking American guy who tells us that what we are about to see is a true story. Call me suspicious, but I don't think he's telling the truth...

An office worker who hates his job, and who has just lost his girlfriend, decides to end his life. However, after slicing open his wrist, he realises that killing himself will be a lot harder than he at first thought: he never dies! Having hacked at his wrists, sliced at his neck, and unsuccessfully tried to strangle himself, the obviously immortal fellow gives up trying to top himself. Instead, he decides to freak out his friend (who is currently banging his ex) by calling him up, inviting him round and then mutilating and dismembering himself in front of the terrified sap (he even guts himself and flings his entrails at the poor bloke).

By the time he has finished, he has reduced himself to nothing more than a talking severed head on a table.

I have noticed that several people on IMDb have compared this film to the early works of Peter Jackson, but even though there are the common denominators of comedy and outrageous gore, I don't think He Never Dies is either as funny or as wholly entertaining as the gore classics from the Kiwi wunderkind.

It is, however, a very peculiar film, and worth seeing, I guess, if you're a fan of silly splatter or truly bizarre cinema. And it's only 39 minutes long!

5.5/10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.