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| This poster for Takashi Miike's Imprint clearly indicates that the film is ripe with horrific, grueling images, gore and torture |
An American journalist (Billy Drago (Supernatural (2008, TV-series))) is looking for his lost love on a cursed Japanese island, where torture-loving whores with gruesome abortion backgrounds have their home.
Imprint is written by Daisuke Tengan (The Eel/Unagi (1997)), adapting the 1999 novel Bokke e, kyōtē by Shimako Iwai (Rakuen (2003)), and directed by Takashi Miike (Shinjuku kuroshakai: Chaina mafia sensô (1995)). It is the 13th and last episode of the first season of TV movie anthology series Masters of Horror.
Without reservations this is a disgusting film, in fact so much so that one almost agrees with the series' executive producer Mick Garris and the executives at Showtime who decided to shelve it and never run it on TV as part of the anthology. But in the atmospheric, stylized universe conjured up here, and in the extreme imagery that goes along with it also lie the unshakable elements of the cultural clash that is Imprint.
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Watch a clip from the film here
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Box office: None - TV movie
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[Imprint premiered 25 February (Yubari Interntational Film Festival) and runs 63 minutes. Shooting took place in Japan, including in Tokyo. Miike claims that he checked up during production and thought that he created something within the bounds of what could be screened on US TV, but the film was nevertheless denied screening when completed. Instead it was shown theatrically in Japan as well as through screenings in festivals in several other markets, along with on TV in yet other markets before getting a home video release broadly. It is the only film in the Masters of Horror series to get shelved due to its content. Miike returned with Waru: kenketsu-hen (2006, video) and theatrically with Taiyô no kizu (2006). Drago returned in Seven Mummies (2006). 7.7k+ IMDb users have given Imprint a 6.9/10 average rating.]
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