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Over Your Dead Body( 2014)

TV-MAHorror
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Overview

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Ichikawa Ebizo XI

      Kousuke Hasegawa / Tamiya Iemon

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      Ko Shibasaki

      Miyuki Goto / Oiwa

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      Hideaki Ito

      Jun Suzuki

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      Miho Nakanishi

      Ume Ito / Rio Asahina

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      Maiko

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      Toshie Negishi

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      Hiroshi Katsuno

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      Ikko Furuya

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      Hitomi Katayama

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      Kenichi Hagiwara

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      Koichi Sato

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      Toshiaki Karasawa

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    A review by Walruse

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    Written by Walruse on Mon Mar 12 2018
    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 t...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • mourning
    • speculative
    • mysterious
    • unassuming
    • wistful
    • understated
    • frustrated