The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
Direction
Higuchinsky's manga-panel compositions brought to life.
Practical Effects
Practical spiral effects that will haunt your dreams.
Cinematography
Green-tinted fever dream of a cursed town.
Director
Higuchinsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Higuchinsky was a music video director who storyboarded every shot to match Junji Ito's original manga panels.
The film adapts only the first third of Ito's manga; the snail people and pregnant Kirie arcs were deemed unfilmable with 2000 technology.
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