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Organ Directed by Kei Fujiwara Produced by Kei Fujiwara
Binbun Furusawa
Koichi TodaWritten by Kei Fujiwara Starring Kei Fujiwara
Kimihiko Hasegawa
Yosiaki Maekawa
Kenji NasaMusic by Kenji Nasa Cinematography Kei Fujiwara Editing by Kenji Nasa Release date(s) July 6, 1996 Running time 104 min. Country Japan Language Japanese Organ (オルガン Orugan) is a 1996 Japanese horror film directed by Kei Fujiwara. The film is written, produced and stars Kei who plays a member of the two organ thieves who harvest organs from their captives while they are still alive.
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Plot
Two undercover detectives, Numata and Tosaka, infiltrate a plastic covered den where they discover a gang of organ thieves led by the teacher Saeki and his one-eyed sister Yoko who are cutting open a victim who is still alive. After a gun battle ensues, Tosaka is captured and Numata escapes.
Saeki works at a girls' school where he offers private lessons to teens whom he later harvests for organs. We learn later that Saeki's mother bit off his genitals when he was young and, like his victims, Saeki is rotting away.
Reception
The film has seen generally negative reception from English critics. Derek Reilly of Variety compared the film to the Japanese film Tetsuo: The Iron Man stating that "where "Tetsuo" had a cartoonish energy, "Organ" is an increasingly limp farrago of body make up and ketchup. Fujiwara makes an impressions as the bizarre one-eyed amazon, but her role, like all others, is undeveloped."[1] Time Out London wrote that "Diminishing returns hit splatter movies faster than most other genres, and this starts straining for effect and repeating itself within its first hour".[2] Jason Gibner of Allmovie awarded the film three stars and wrote that the film "can often be impossible to watch, the overall bizarre nature of the film will hook some viewers who want to discover where this twisted gore fest will go next."[3]
Notes
- ^ Elley, Derek (October 21, 1996). "Organ". Variety. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117911380.html?categoryid=31&cs=1. Retrieved January 12, 2010.
- ^ "Organ (1996)". Time Out London. http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/66194/organ.html. Retrieved January 12, 2010.
- ^ Gibner, Jason. "Organ: Review". Allmovie. http://www.allmovie.com/work/organ-136767/review. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
External links
- Organ at AllRovi
- Organ at the Internet Movie Database
- Organ at Rotten Tomatoes
Categories:- 1996 films
- Japanese films
- Japanese-language films
- 1990s crime films
- 1990s horror films
- Crime thriller films
- Japanese horror films
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