Wow ... My friend Claire lent me this on DVD last night and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
What it's about: Mima leaves the idol group CHAM, in order to pursue her dream as an actress. She climbs up the rocky road to success by performing as rape victims and posing nude for magazines, but is haunted by her reflections of the past and a serial killer.
Roger Corman remarked that if Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney had teamed up they would've made a movie something like this. It reminded me a little bit of "Spirited Away" but more of the animated sequence in Tarantino's "Kill Bill", involving Lucy Liu's character's past.
It's great fun, the animation is fantastic, the violence and nudity is infrequent but shockingly strong (even though animated). It's a bit silly but nevertheless a wonderful, powerful, must-see movie.
If you watch it on DVD, you have the option of watching it in English, or Japanese with English subtitles.
I bet Britney Spears will no doubt be cast in the drab American remake!
What it's about: Mima leaves the idol group CHAM, in order to pursue her dream as an actress. She climbs up the rocky road to success by performing as rape victims and posing nude for magazines, but is haunted by her reflections of the past and a serial killer.
Roger Corman remarked that if Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney had teamed up they would've made a movie something like this. It reminded me a little bit of "Spirited Away" but more of the animated sequence in Tarantino's "Kill Bill", involving Lucy Liu's character's past.
It's great fun, the animation is fantastic, the violence and nudity is infrequent but shockingly strong (even though animated). It's a bit silly but nevertheless a wonderful, powerful, must-see movie.
If you watch it on DVD, you have the option of watching it in English, or Japanese with English subtitles.
I bet Britney Spears will no doubt be cast in the drab American remake!