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A psychic who demands your lips as payment? Japan's wildest horror-comedy bargain bin fever dream.
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Crazy Lips (2000)

unhingedlow-budget chaosJ-horror parody

Overview

ComedyActionHorror

After her brother is accused of murdering four people, his sister, desperate to prove his innocence, goes to a psychic for help. The price they ask, however, is far more than she expected, and the answers they give her are nothing she could ever have imagined. And what is the FBI doing investgating a murder in Japan?

Flag of JPJPJapanese
Content warning
obsessionsacrificetruth vs perceptioninstitutional incompetence

Standout Aspects

Practical Effects

Gloriously cheap gore effects that age like milk

Acting

Hitomi Miwa's committed descent into lip-losing madness

Direction

Sasaki's 'throw everything at the wall' energy

Best for:Friends: Drunken group watch for maximum WTF reactions·Rewatch: Cult completists hunting obscure Sôkô saga entries
Heads up:Gore: Body horror involving facial mutilation, obviously·Disturbing: Consent-adjacent psychic transactions played for laughs
Hirohisa Sasaki

Director

Hirohisa Sasaki

ReleasedFeb 26, 2000
Runtime1h 25m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacefast
Intensityhigh
Tonemixed
Feelmedium
Basara Pictures

Top Cast

Hitomi Miwa

Hitomi Miwa

Satomi Kurahashi

Kazuma Suzuki

Kazuma Suzuki

Michio Kurahashi

Ren Osugi

Ren Osugi

Colonel

Hiroshi Abe

Hiroshi Abe

Narimoto

Yoshiko Yura

Yoshiko Yura

Etsuko Mamiya

Tomomi Kuribayashi

Tomomi Kuribayashi

Lucy

Shirō Shimomoto

Shirō Shimomoto

Ikko Suzuki

Ikko Suzuki

Police inspector

Yumi Yoshiyuki

Yumi Yoshiyuki

Tarō Suwa

Tarō Suwa

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Cultural

Part of Japan's late-90s direct-to-video 'V-cinema' boom where genre mashups ruled.

Trivia

Hiroshi Abe plays it completely straight as the FBI agent, possibly the only person who read a different script.

Gallery(13 images)

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