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Grotesque

Original title: Gurotesuku
  • 20092009
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 13m
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4.7/10
6.6K
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Grotesque (2009)
  • Horror
  • Thriller
A doctor kidnaps a young couple and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.A doctor kidnaps a young couple and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.A doctor kidnaps a young couple and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.
IMDb RATING
4.7/10
6.6K
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  • Director
    • Kôji Shiraishi
  • Writer
    • Kôji Shiraishi(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kotoha Hiroyama
    • Hiroaki Kawatsure
    • Shigeo Ôsako
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  • Director
    • Kôji Shiraishi
  • Writer
    • Kôji Shiraishi(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kotoha Hiroyama
    • Hiroaki Kawatsure
    • Shigeo Ôsako
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    • 77User reviews
    • 53Critic reviews
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    Kotoha Hiroyama
    • Aki Miyasitaas Aki Miyasita
    Hiroaki Kawatsure
    • Kazuo Kojimaas Kazuo Kojima
    Shigeo Ôsako
    • The Doctoras The Doctor
    • Director
      • Kôji Shiraishi
    • Writer
      • Kôji Shiraishi(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Distributors of this movie had hoped to be given an 18 certificate for the film, which involves torture such as amputation and eye-gouging. But the British Board of Film Classification said the film featured sexual sadism for its own sake. Also stated that giving the film a rating would involve a "risk of harm" to those viewing it. Therefore no classification was given and selling or supplying the film would now be illegal.
    • Quotes

      Aki: I've seen your mother before. She's a prostitute in Okubo. A fat whore with caked-on makeup, right? A germ-infested swine. It's definitely her. You look just like her. That thing is the same, too.

      The Doctor: "That thing"?... What thing?

      Aki: So you're not aware of it?

      The Doctor: I'm asking you.

      Aki: So you really don't know. I pity you. You've never had many friends, have you? Am I right? Especially girls. They make faces and won't come near you. Only whores, like your mother, or gold-diggers would have sex with you. You've never had a single woman love you, right? Do you know why? Want me to tell you? It's hereditary, from your mother who's a whore. That old prostitute from Okubo who stunk like a skunk. That's why even the drunk wouldn't sleep with her. Get it? Seeing that the old hag didn't tell you, that means she didn't even know about her own stench.

      The Doctor: I stink?

      Aki: You and your whore mother. You have horrible body odor. Your armpits stink.

      The Doctor: Body odor...

      Aki: Your sense of smell is bad, right? Hyposmia. That's hereditary, too. You've got the most foul stench that you can't even smell. So there are people like you. The reason people didn't come near you is because you stunk. Even so, if someone really loved you, they would have told you. The fact that no one told you means you weren't loved by anyone. You're doing such idiotic things like this because you're lonely, right? Bull's eye? I pity you. Poor thing. How lonely.

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    • Soundtracks
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      Music by Masato Tejima

      Lyrics by Masato Tejima and Kazuo Satô

      Performed by SS

    User reviews77

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    5/10
    It is what it is
    Nothing to see here. It's predictable in that it has no story (as I suppose is how these movies are) but even still, I think some plot worth more than a dime would be have been suffice. I don't think the gore to be honest is all that much from what I can see...I know for some it would be too much but I wasn't impressed nor grossed out. To me, Hostel does about the same, in smaller amounts but more stylishly. This movie gets a zero for style points...any sense of character development is simply plodding. There's no real direction or purpose here. A cut here, a nip there...the implausible, downright comical escape which seems (pardon the pun) a complete detachment from the rest of the 'so called' movie. I'd say the ending only serves its purpose in that it finally puts this film out of its misery as well as its disappointment viewers.
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    • Release date
      • May 17, 2009 (Brazil)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Groteska
    • Production companies
      • Ace Deuce Entertainment
      • JollyRoger
      • Tornado Film
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 13 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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