Myujiamu
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大友啓史Kamera:
山本英夫Musik:
Tarō IwashiroBesetzung:
Shun Oguri, Shûhei Nomura, 尾野真千子, Tomomi Maruyama, Masayuki Ibu, Tomoko Tabata, 大森南朋, Mikako Ichikawa, Satoshi Tsumabuki, George Kokubo, Ririka Kawashima (mehr)Inhalte(1)
A body mauled to death by dogs is found and other heinous murders follow. Mysterious notes are left at the crime scenes, hinting the killings were done to punish each victim and the bodies presented in a way as though to be found. The killer only appears on rainy days and is witnessed wearing a frog mask. Police detective Sawamura is on the case and to his surprise; he finds out the next target of the Frogman could be his beloved wife and child who had left him 2 weeks ago. As the investigation progresses, Sawamura learns that the Frogman stages the murders like works of art, calling himself an artist. Sawamura tries to corner Frogman from the clues, but is devastated to find that all was a trap. Will Sawamura survive the deadly scheme of Frogman and save his family? (Busan International Film Festival)
(mehr)Kritiken (2)
A decent affair for Japan. It's a whodunit that follows the trail of Se7en about a serial killer with a frog mask. I like the reason why he wears the frog mask and also why he chooses his victims, everything has a logical reason, which I thought was cool. The actual execution of the murders is not shown, rather the "climax" of the murders is still rather bizzarely shown. The downside is the longer running time, but I didn't get to any significant boredom. Decent and also very nicely shot, which is unusual for the Japanese. 65%
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The police are confronted by a serial killer who murders his victims in bizarre ways. That alone was enough to tempt me; plus Oguri Shun is the lead, so I thought it would be great. Plus the previews promised suspense, mystery, and an interesting atmosphere. In the end, the film failed largely due to imbalance. It seemed like it was always going up; good, good, but then all of a sudden it went "nah" and the fun, interestingness plummeted. Oguri was all over the place, the blood flowed as fast as it could, the frogs were good too, the corpses were truly bizarre, but basically, apart from the rain, I didn't take much away from it. In the end it was just a rainy mediocre crime drama.
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