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Grotesque

Original title: Gurotesuku
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 13m
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4.7/10
8K
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Grotesque (2009)
Splatter HorrorHorrorThriller

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.

  • Director
    • Kôji Shiraishi
  • Writer
    • Kôji Shiraishi
  • Stars
    • Kotoha Hiroyama
    • Hiroaki Kawatsure
    • Shigeo Ôsako
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    4.7/10
    8K
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    • Director
      • Kôji Shiraishi
    • Writer
      • Kôji Shiraishi
    • Stars
      • Kotoha Hiroyama
      • Hiroaki Kawatsure
      • Shigeo Ôsako
    • 85User reviews
    • 56Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Kotoha Hiroyama
    • Aki Miyasita
    Hiroaki Kawatsure
    • Kazuo Kojima
    Shigeo Ôsako
    • The Doctor
    Tsugumi Nagasawa
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    • Director
      • Kôji Shiraishi
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      • Kôji Shiraishi
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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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      Aeka
      Music by Masato Tejima

      Lyrics by Masato Tejima and Kazuo Satô

      Performed by SS

    User reviews85

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    5/10

    So realistic.....yet so pointless!?

    A doctor with sickening and depraved needs kidnaps a teenage couple and forces them to play his depraved game of physical and psychological torment and agony, whilst constantly teasing them with promises of eventual survival and release. This film will no doubt stimulate debate, particularly In the 'English speaking world', as to what Is acceptable In movies and what Isn't (Japanese cinema Isn't very well represented outside of Japan, so the current and most popular genres of modern Japanese cinema are largely unknown to the outside world). How this film passed the censors Is beyond me, yet 'Grotesque' Is apparently available to buy and rent In most countries.It has very realistic scenes of male and female rape and the most terrible kinds of torture Imaginable. The whole thing has only the three characters and apart from the opening scenes, we never go beyond a couple of rooms throughout the whole movie.If you enjoy extreme physical & psychological torture, then this Is certainly the film for you. Sadly, there's no story to It - we just watch the agony of the two Innocent kids!
    • stevehoyland
    • Jul 12, 2020
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    • Release date
      • May 17, 2009 (Brazil)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Gurotesuku
    • 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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