The plot depends largely on garnering a deep emotional empathy with its characters, and employs a lush, melancholic and romantic approach, one that was gently hinted at in Uzumaki and given further room to develop in Long Dream, but even more so here.Īt its core, oftentimes Ito's work has a big warm human heart, and that juxtaposes beautifully with the horror elements, lending a real poignancy to events which often destroy the characters Ito is asking you to empathise with. In fact, within five minutes of the movie opening I had guessed most of the elements of the outcome, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I'll make no bones about it: considering that it really was made on the lightest of shoestring budgets as an apparent V-Cinema production, Lovesick Dead (aka Shibito no koiwazurai, or, in a bizarre twist of mad renaming, Love Ghost ) is an amazing piece of work: beautifully shot with stylish visuals, charmingly acted and very entertaining, with genuinely creepy little tinges from time to time that take you by surprise.Īdapted in part from a Junji Ito manga of the same name, Lovesick Dead has a fairly predictable storyline. Directed by Shibuya Kazuyuki, 2001, 95 min., starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Risa Goto, Hitomi Miwa, Asumi Miwa, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Miki Itou and Saitou Yousuke.
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