Uzumaki (Spiral / Vortex)
- Original title
- Uzumakiaka
- AKA
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- Spiral
- Vortex
- Year
- 2000
- Running time
- 90 min.
- Country
- Japan
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Eriko Hatsune
- Fhi Fan
- Hinako Saeki
- Ren Osugi
- Masami Horiuchi
- Taro Suwa
- Keiko Takahashi
- Shin Eun-kyung
- Toru Tezuka
- Sadao Abe
- Asumi Miwa
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Horror. Fantasy | J-Horror. Supernatural. Manga. Live-Action
- Movie Groups
- Junji Ito Adaptations
- Synopsis
- In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. He seems unaware of her presence and she thinks no more of it. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possesed with different forms of spirals, one student seems to be mutating into a snail, another's hair becomes strangely medusa-like. The entire town becomes possesed.
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