{"id":16896,"date":"2024-10-23T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16896"},"modified":"2024-10-18T16:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T20:20:33","slug":"uzumaki-2000-higuchinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16896","title":{"rendered":"Uzumaki (2000, Higuchinsky)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rewatching this standout from the great J-horror wave in anticipation of the troubled new animated version. At the time I enjoyed this enough to check out Higuchinsky’s follow-up (Long Dream<\/em>, not as cool as The Jaunt<\/em>) – now the mix of bizarre happenings with cool lighting and soft-focus soap opera reminds me of House<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Kirie’s boyfriend knows the town is spiraling and suggests they run away together but she doesn’t take him seriously and stays until it’s too late. His dad (Ren Osugi, Nightmare Detective<\/a><\/em> chief, Shin Godzilla<\/a><\/em> prime minister) becomes dangerously spiral-obsessed until he suicides in the washing machine, and mom (Keiko Takahashi, star of Door<\/a><\/em>) develops extreme spiralphobia as a result. Meanwhile kids are becoming snails and growing mad spiral hairstyles. A reporter talks to the kids and does some research, has a breakthrough, and before he can tell them, Kirie’s ridiculous classmate who likes surprising people (Sadawo Abe of Yatterman<\/a><\/em>) jumps in front of the reporter’s car and they both die. Closing apocalypse is shown via stills, presumably from the comic.<\/p>\n

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The lead girl showed up a decade later in Norwegian Wood<\/em>. Denden is the local cop – I think he shot his partner in Cure<\/a><\/em> – and among the schoolkids are the stars of Ring Virus<\/em> and Ring Spiral<\/em> (appropriately). Potentially useful list of “the best horror cartoonists” found on Lboxd<\/a>: Ito, Burns, Carroll, Umezu, Corben, Freibert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rewatching this standout from the great J-horror wave in anticipation of the troubled new animated version. At the time I enjoyed this enough to check out Higuchinsky’s follow-up (Long Dream, not as cool as The Jaunt) – now the mix of bizarre happenings with cool lighting and soft-focus soap opera reminds me of House. Kirie’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,54,36,3333],"class_list":["post-16896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-horror","tag-japan","tag-spiral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16929,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions\/16929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}