Respect to Higuchinsky for attempting to turn Junji Ito’s manga into a film, but the end result isn't very successful. It was a good idea to shuffle some of the episodic stories together, but the structure is still shaky, the dialogue isn't very interesting and the casting of the two leads is poor. But what lets it down the most is the low budget. Money was needed to turn Ito’s warped creations into a reality and they just don’t work without it. Even the occasional flourish in other areas fails to compensate.
2 twisted tales out of 5
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