Rent Freezer (2000)
3.2 of 5 from 61 ratings
1h 43min
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- Synopsis:
A disturbing thriller about Chirhiro, a woman trying to escape the memories of being raped by three men while they filmed the incident. She leaves her hometown to start a new life and five years later is a professional working in Tokyo, engaged to one of her colleagues, Yusuke. Without warning, one of the rapists appears, and threatens to turn her life into a living hell with news that the other two are on their way with the videotape of the rape, and discloses the evidence to her fiance. Mad with fury and pushed to the limits of despair, Chirhiro resorts to extreme acts of revenge, intent on destroying those ghosts from her past forever. In her apartment with Assume, just as it looks like she is rekindling her relationship, the electricity suddenly shortcuts - and a troubled and uncertain future meets her again as she faces the aftermath of her desperate, disturbing tactics... - Actors:
- Harumi Inoue, Shingo Tsurumi, Kazuki Kitamura, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Daisuke Iijima, Yôzaburô Itô, Ken Nakayama, Kyoko Muramatsu, Satsuki Natsukawa, Takeko Kubota, Kyôko Hayami, Naoto Takenaka
- Directors:
- Takashi Ishii
- Voiced By:
- Dave Mallow, Bob Papenbrook, Debbie Rothstein, Ellyn Stern, Doug Stone, Dan Woren
- Writers:
- Takashi Ishii
- Studio:
- Palisades
- Genres:
- Thrillers
- Countries:
- Japan
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Reviews (2) of Freezer
Powerful and disturbing - Freezer review by CP Customer
Freezer is a pretty unpleasant movie by anyone's standards. Unlike most western films that sugar coat their dread with phoney optimism; 'Freezer' is a grim, gritty and savage tale of a Tokyo office worker putting behind her the emotional scars of being viciously raped by three men five years ago. Just as she thinks her life is back on track her attackers track her down and blackmail her, playing on her fears that others might know of her hidden past. Director Takashi Ishii keeps the action going at a brisk pace and while you can always see where the story is heading it still manages a few surprises along the way.
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Freeze Me (2000) - Freezer review by sh
thoroughly unpleasant but thats the point of transgression in cinema like this.
the fact that Chihiro's rapists show up and just linger around her apartment, showering, pissing, eating. totally listless in their cruelty feels more like how they exist in her head. from the extra locks to the fear of the dark, they will always and forever hang around inside her head, filching the idea of stable rationality. geniune demons on the return leg. I think Ishii's more overt controversy comes from how willing he is to let her get close to them before the hammer drops, offering her body and those locked down rooms of her mind as last meals. pretty destructive stuff, but thats all it ever is.
wild how good this looks with the low-light TV fish tank hum, kitchenette fridge clicks. everything feels like its occurring in the time between rain and streetlights meeting.
gnarly and cathartic and i do not wish to see it again
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