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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Angel Dust (1994)

Genre: Thriller
Directors: Sogo Ishii
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English (Hardcoded)
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 1.66:1
Length: 118mn
File: Dvdrip Divx Avi - 608x358 - 982mb

Description
Every Monday at 6 pm a young woman is murdered in the subway. The psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to assist the police. The trail leads to another psychiatrist - Dr Rei Aku - who Setsuko used to date. As she get closer to the solution, she gets more and more convinced that Aku's deprogramming of former sectmembers is important.

Innovative, tense and unnerving tale that is also very stylish, with inspired visuals, imaginative use of sound and spectacular editing. It is also a little confusing upon first viewing but it is clear by the end that everything did make sense. An intelligent work that deals with gender/work issues, psychological make up and it's consequences plus the question of dealing with cult 'victims'.

IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109733/