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Uzumaki (live-action movie)

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[ adapted from Uzumaki (manga) ]
Alternative title:
Spiral
うずまき (Japanese)
Genres: horror
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: Something is wrong with the hometown of young High School couple Shuichi and Kirie. Mysterious deaths and surreal disturbances grow more and more frequent, all with one thing in common: spirals. Whether it is a spring, the spiral of a snail shell or a spiral staircase, the pattern recurs in all the strange events. Shuichi's father seems to be specially in tune with the Spiral, and Kirie does her best to keep Shuichi sane as he becomes more and more able to sense doom approaching.
Running time: 92 minutes
Vintage: 2000
Ending Theme:
"Raven" by Do As Infinity
Trivia: We have 1
In the news 3 times:
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Related releases:
    Uzumaki (DVD) 2009-10-13 (from $18.71)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Higuchinsky

Screenplay: Takao Nitta

Music:
Keiichi Suzuki
Tetsuro Kashibuchi

Original Manga: Junji Ito

Art director: Hiroshi Hayashida

Director of Photography: Gen Kobayashi

Executive producer:
Mitsuru Kurosawa
Toyoyuki Yokohama

Producer: Sumiji Miyake

Makeup Effects: Tomoo Haraguchi

Planning: Dai Miyazaki

Sound Design: Hitoshi Tsurumaki

Theme Song Performance: Do as Infinity (ED)

Visual Effects:
Issei Oda
Kenichi Kobayashi

 

Eriko Hatsune as Goshima Kirie

Fan Fhi as Saito Shuichi

Ren Osugi as Saito Toshio

Akira Matsuda as Yasuzo Oyama

Asumi Miwa as Shiho Ishikawa

Denden as Officer Futada

Hassei Takano as Kazuki Tsumura

Hinakoi Saeki as Sekino Kyoko

Keiko Takahashi as Saito Yukie

Maki Hamada as Macky

Masami Horiuchi as Reporter Ichiro Tamura

Sadao Abe as Mitsuru Yamaguchi

Saori Nakane as Little Kirie

Shin Eun Kyung as Maruyama Chie

Takuto Oyama as Himself

Taro Suwa as Yasuo Goshima

Tomoo Fukatsu as Norio Katayama

Tooru Teduka as Yokota Ikuo

Yuki Murakami as Yukky

Japanese companies 
(none)
English staff 
English companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Discotek

Licensed by: Eastern Star

English cast 
(none)
German staff 
German companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: VOX

German cast 
(none)
 
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