Manriki (2019)

Original title

MANRIKI

Directed by

Yasuhiko Shimizu

Genre

comedy, horror

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 28m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in Tokyo gets a drastic facial reduction using a vise to pursue her fashion modeling dreams. The procedure goes wrong, disfiguring her face and leading to strange and darkly funny situations.

darkly comicgrotesquesatiricalunsettlingbleakfast-pacedabsurd

What happens

Manriki (stylized in all capitals), also known as Vise, is a 2019 Japanese satirical black comedy film directed by Yasuhiko Shimizu. Takumi Saitoh, who starred in the film, designed and produced the film with comedian Nagano. The film's plot revolves around a young woman who, being desperate to succeed as a fashion model, undergoes a grotesque and painful facial reduction procedure using a vise. Her face is disfigured as a result, which leads to absurd and darkly comic consequences. Saitoh and director Shimizu based the film on a script that had been inspired by the discomfort Nagano felt at a fashion-industry event. It is the first feature film by Team MANRIKI, a filmmaking project team consisting of Saito, Nagano, Shimizu, and musician and actor Nobuaki Kaneko. The film won the Asian Award at the 23rd Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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