Imprint (2006)
3.6 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 3min
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- Synopsis:
Christopher (Billy Drago), a Victorian-era American journalist, is traveling through Japan looking for Komomo (Itô), a lost girlfriend whom he had promised to rescue from prostitution and bring to the United States. Landing on an island populated solely by whores and their masters, he is solicited by a syphilitic tout (Mame Yamada). He claims no knowledge of Komomo, but Christopher has to spend the night, requesting the company of a girl (Youki Kudoh) lurking back in the shadows, who joins him in his room. Disfigured and disturbed, the girl claims a closer connection with the dead than the living. She tells him that Komomo was there, but hanged herself after her lover never came for her. Distraught, Christopher seeks solace in sake. Falling asleep, he requests a bedtime story. The girl recounts her past - her mother, a midwife, was forced to sell her to a brothel after her father died, and eventually she wound up on the island. Komomo was the most popular girl there, making the others jealous. When the Madam's jade ring was stolen, Komomo was tortured to confess. After suffering hideously - underarms burned, needles driven under fingernails and into gums - she hanged herself in torment, tired of waiting for her lover... - Actors:
- Billy Drago, Shihô Harumi, Michié, Magy, Shin'ichi Tokuhara, Takao Handa, Hiroshi Kuze, Miyuki Konno, Yutaka Matsuzaki, Hiroshi Fujita, Sachiko Matsuura, Noriko Eguchi, Megumu Takada, Yuno, Miho Harita, Yûki Kudô, Toshie Negishi, Mame Yamada, Tokitoshi Shiota, Risa Uehara
- Directors:
- Takashi Miike
- Producers:
- Bo Altherr, Fumio Inoue, Jennie Lew Tugend, Lisa Richardson, Tom Rowe, Lauren Weissman
- Writers:
- Mick Garris, Daisuke Tengan, Shimako Iwai
- Aka:
- Masters of Horror 10: Imprint
- Genres:
- Drama, Horror
- Countries:
- Japan
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