Uzumaki (film)

Uzumaki ? , Spiral is a Japanese horror film directed by Higuchinsky. Uzumaki, released in 2000, is based on Junji Itos episodic manga of the same name.

Consisting of four parts A Premonition, Erosion, Visitation, and Transmigration, the film uses a different ending than the manga, as a result of the films being produced before the mangas conclusion. High school student Kiries first glimpse that something is awry in the small town of Kurouzu comes when the father of her boyfriend Shuichi begins to film the corkscrew patterns on a snail he is also in the process of making a video scrap book filled with the images of anything that has a spiral or vortex shape to it. His weird obsession threatens to go out of control. He proclaims that a spiral is the highest form of art and frantically creates whirlpools in his miso soup when he runs out of spiral patterned Kamaboko. He then becomes one with Uzumaki when he decides to crawl into a washing machine to get a pointofview shot for his film.It is not long before the entire town is infected by the otherworldly whirls. Tamura, a reporter, is intrigued by Shuichis dads suicide and becomes obsessed with the case. Meanwhile, Kiries high school is populated by a host of twitching teachers, preening pretty girls, and the slimy Katayama, who begins to walk at a snails pace and only comes to school when it rains. Making matters worse, the student body is starting to sprout shells, drink water in copious amounts, and crawl on the walls of the school. Sekino, Kiries classmate, begins to grow her hair in medusalike curls that eventually take over not only her mind but the minds of all the girls in the school save for Kirie. Meanwhile, in the hospital, Shuichis mother, who was hospitalized after her husbands death, cuts off her hair and fingertips in order to get rid of anything spiralshaped on her body, and grows so afraid of spirals that Shuichi is forced to tell the hospital to eliminate anything spiralshaped so his mother may not encounter them even going so far as to throwing away the cakes that Kirie had brought for her mother, since the frosting on the cakes were like whirls.

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