
2000 Dir: Takashi
Ishii With: Harumi Inoue, Naoto Takenaka, Kazuki Kitamura, Shingo Tsurumi, Shunsuke Matsuoka
Chihiro (Japanese nude model,
Harumi Inoue) is an attractive girl, with a good job, a loving boyfriend and a nice apartment. However she has a dark secret,
a shameful rape that happened to her 5 years previously, at the hands of three men from her hometown, which was also videotaped
by them. Chihiro was so traumatized and shamed by the incident that she didn't report it to anyone. She moves to Tokyo to
forget her past, and becomes a career woman.
Are you familiar with the
saying: "revenge is a dish, best served cold"? Well, it couldn't have been more appropriate for this movie!
Chihiro thinks she's left
this incident well and truly in her past, until that is, Hirokawa, one of the men who raped her, turns up at her apartment.
She is forced into letting
him stay and giving in to his sexual advances. He tells her that the other two men who raped her will be arriving soon, Minoru
Baba, the gang leader, who is about to be released from jail, and Atsushi Kojima, a manic depressive who has recently lost
his job.
She tries
to keep her life as normal as possible, putting up with Hirokawa's violence (he has a fondness for kicking her on the backside
- what a charming man!) and desperately trying to keep his existence from everyone, especially boyfriend Nogami. Hirokawa
one morning strolls around nude in the hallway and distributes the photos of the rape through her neighbour's letterboxes.
Luckily she manages to retrieve them.
When Chihiro sneaks out to
spend a night with Nogami, Hirokawa becomes enraged. The next day he strides into her office and demands to see her and she
loses her job through his behaviour.
Troubled by this incident
Nogami turns up at Chihiro's apartment. At the door Chihiro tells Nogami about her rape, and who Hirokawa is. Nogami, upset,
and not knowing how to take this, turns and walks away, much to the amusement of Hirokawa
Chihiro cannot see any way
out of this situation and is eventually forced to kill him while he's taking a bath. She hits him over the head with a bottle,
but a struggle in the bathtub ensues, with Hirokawa attempting to drown Chihiro. She eventually overcomes him and pushes him
back into the bath. Hirokawa hits his head on the wall and slides down into the bathtub.
She stores his body in her
fridge! Where else?!
Next she purchases a freezer,
joking with the delivery man that she's got it to store her ex-boyfriend in.
Another of the rapists, Kojima,
now turns up wanting to know where Hirokawa is (well ... er ... in the freezer?) He is depressed after
losing his job and starts off by begging her for forgiveness.
He discovers that Hirokawa's
mobile phone is still there, but Chihiro tells him that he left some days earlier. She becomes stuck with him
After drinking heavily he
becomes violent and makes advances on Chihiro. She tells him that she needs to take a shower and that then they can carry
on from where they left off. While left on his own, Kojima discovers the corpse in the freezer. Shocked by the fact that Chihiro
doesn't just store the yoghurt and the milk in there, he stumbles away, unaware that Chihiro is behind him, she then
hits him over the head with a hammer.
She kills him - and of course
purchases another freezer!
Problem solved again!
That is until the third
of the rapists, Baba, the one who has recently got out of jail, turns up and makes himself at home in her flat, in exactly
the same way the others had done. He spends most of his time playing her playstation game, which he gets really engrossed
in. He keeps shouting: 'Kill kill!' as he plays it.
This he is doing when Chihiro
is hovering behind him, waiting for her moment to do him in too! Looks like it's time to get yet another freezer!
With Baba nicely stored away
in another freezer (told you!) during the next couple of days Chihiro stays in her apartment, and begins talking to the dead
men and struggling to stay cool herself, as the amount of power consumed by three large freezers doesn't allow for the air
conditioning to be used without tripping the main fuse! (No wonder the flat is such a mess - she can't plug in the Hoover!)
She decides to leave and begin
a new life in Europe, and leave the bodies behind to be discovered when the freezers start dripping into the apartments below!
As she is about to leave,
Nogami turns up asking for her forgiveness. Without even asking: 'What's with the three big freezers, Chihiro?' he and Chihiro
spend the night together. However he stumbles on her secret while searching for the source of a strange smell that has been
present ever since he entered her flat (now I wonder what that is!) He opens one of the freezers.
Never mind she has a solution
to his discovery ...
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