When your therapist's revenge plot involves murder-by-proxy, maybe skip the copay.
A beautiful psychiatrist, Saori, is plotting revenge against a man using one of her patients. The patient dreams of raping a young girl. She throws the patient and the man's daughter in the room and has him murder the girl. The patient carries out the plan as instructed in the dream, but a mysterious man in camouflage uniform blocks her path.
Direction
Ikeda's controlled grime elevates trash into genuine unease.
Acting
Midori Takei's ice-cold psychiatrist burns holes in the screen.
Director
Toshiharu Ikeda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ikeda made this between his cult classic Mermaid Legend and his eventual suicide in 2010—his filmography tracks a fascinating descent into nihilism.
Part of Japan's 1990s 'V-cinema' boom: direct-to-video thrillers that bypassed theatrical censorship and could go darker, weirder, cheaper.
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