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Over Your Dead Body
An actor named Kosuke plays the role of Iemon in a stage version of Yotsuya Kaiden and his new lover Miyuki plays Oiwa. However, as they delve deeper into their respective performances, the line between fantasy and reality becomes obscured until the murderous, vengeful themes of the play bleed into their own relationship.
Year: 2014
Genre: Horror
Studio: Celluloid Dreams, Sedic International, Kinoshita Group, Kôsuke, Shanghai Pengjin Entertainment Co., Toei Company, dentsu, OLM
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Ichikawa Ebizo XI, Ko Shibasaki, Hideaki Ito, Miho Nakanishi, Maiko, Toshie Negishi
Crew: Kikumi Yamagishi (Screenplay), Takashi Miike (Director), Shigeyuki Endō (Executive Producer), Toshiaki Nakazawa (Executive Producer), Nobuyuki Tanizawa (Executive Producer), Yi-Wan Ren (Executive Producer)
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I don't know much about theatre in Japan, but I associate this movie to be similar to the the little Noh I have seen, even though the stage play in center of the narrative is based on the play "Yotsuya Kaidan" from the later period of Kabuki theatre. Kuime takes you on a mesmerizing journey of two, if not three or more, parallel narratives where the on stage facilitates the backstage drama. The pacing is very restrained and timing for accents is crucial. Aesthetically it is very pleasing and has an interesting exposed re-use of the movie sets similar to the actors doing multiple roles and their stories being intertwined. Finally the horror elements are creeping and lead up to several gruesome conclusions. That said, I can see why it did not attract a western audience, as the pacing may be too slow for a western horror audience and the multilayered narrative is more common in the festival circuit. Personally I find that after the one and half hours of elegant theater, the twenty minutes or so finale was a bit crude and could have been worked through better. Still, I found myself very attentive throughout the movie, got affected by the horrific crescendos and maintained an interest for the artistic aspects as well. In conclusion, I'd consider it one of the better movies I have seen by Takashi Miike.