A serial killer turns corpses into art and leaves calling-card lip prints. Tokyo just got weird.
Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss."
Production
Grimy Tokyo locations that breathe sleaze and neon rot
Costume
Early-2000s fashion that somehow makes murder more stylish
Director
Makoto Tezuka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Makoto Tezuka is literally Osamu Tezuka's son, making this the god of manga's kid doing erotic body-horror. Family dinners must've been something.
The film channels the 'ero-guro' (erotic grotesque) tradition that haunted Japanese art since the 1920s, updated for the lost decade's hollow consumerism.
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