Director: Takashi Miike

Summary: The story of a dysfunctional Japanese family.

An assailant (Watanabe Kazushi) cracks Kiyoshi (Kenichi Endo) on the head with a rock. The victim is the patriarch of a depraved family and this act of violence mysteriously enables the stranger to enter their unhappy home. Dysfunctional does not even begin to describe this family unit which consists of a prostitute daughter (Fujiko) who turns incestuous tricks, a son (Jun Moto) who viciously beats a junky mother (Shungiku Uchida) and the father who videotapes all the unsavoury behaviour in hopes of revitalising his television production career with a reality programme he'd like to call True Bullying. Their visitor tightens the family bonds through truly unusual methods as he videotapes a murder and guides Keiko to excessively lactating an apparently healing breast milk.
Takashi Miike's (AUDITION) familial portrait captures a disturbed household that reaches surreal levels of depravity. The unsettling film, shot on digital video, is laced with dark humour and haunting, shocking imagery. The film builds to a final image that can be seen as both transcendent and immoral.

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Aspect Ratio:	1.33 Full Screen
Main Language:	Japanese
Region:	Region 0
Special Features:	Original Trailer, Asia Extreme Trailer Reel
Subtitles:	English
Year:	2001
Release Date:	May 24, 2004
Runtime:	86 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	T V D 3440
Label:	Asia Extreme
Keywords:	Subtitled, Comedy, General, Visitor, Drama, Japanese, Q
Genre:	Drama