In Tokyo a string of murders in which all the victims have ‘X’ carved into their body convinces Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) that the killers may have been hypnotised. When a young man with unusual powers of suggestion named Mamiya (Masato Hagiwara) is arrested on suspicion his connection with an early 20th century hypnotist named Mesmer is discovered. As Takabe … Read the rest
Month: March 2018
Planet of Snail (Yi Seung-jun, South Korea, 2011)
A warm and engaging love story in the shape of a fly on the wall documentary about two souls who complement each other so perfectly it’s as if they need no one else. The man, Young-chan, is blind and deaf and his wife who suffers from spinal damage, Soon-ho, is barely three feet tall. But despite his severe disabilities Young-chan … Read the rest
