Furiizu Mii

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266555/
Chihiro (Harumi Inoue) is living in Tokyo, she moved there from northern Japan.
She works and are about to get married to her boyfriend who also works at the
same place as Chihiro.
They have got friends but they don´t live together. Chihiro´s life seems nice
and untroubled untill one day a man from her past enters her life once again.

Hirokawa (Kazuki Kitamura) has found Chihiro after five years, now he and his
three friends once again wanna have a foursome with Chihiro.
The problem, for Chihiro, is that the foursome was a gangrape - and the three men also did videotape it..

Takashi Ishii (writer and director) gives us a slowpased drama thriller with the
best from japanese culture or the mind of the japanese I should say.
Chihiro, who has been raped and still being humiliated (the fact that the
arrogant Hirokawa says he have selled the video from the rape makes Chihiro even
more afraid and vulnerable).

One rapist bows down on his knees and confess the wrong things he has done
infront of Chihiro.
For some people it might be laughable when he, with tear in his eyes says "You
don´t mind? I´m a bad guy, you know. After what we did to you, to think that
you´re so nice to me!" And quickly there after grabs a beer from Chihiro´s hand
and drinks it.
It is not in disrespect towards women or Chihiro he does that, the important
thing to remember and understand is that ; japanese men (japanese in general)
are somehow masters in pleading/ask for forgivness.

Furizii mii is a rape revenge movie with an poetic artistic touch to it. The
dark humor, that the japanese is well known for in their movies, wich also can
be found in the new classics Batoru rowaiaru
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/
and Jisatsu sâkuru http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312843/
are in this movie perfectly placed in some scenes.
What I also like about Furizii mii is that when Chihiro gets beaten the camera
angle only shows the man, or his shadow, but we clearly understand what is going
on.

Furizii mii will hopefully be warm inside your DVD player, alltough as the
tagling says "Revenge has never been so cold."
By other means; Do watch this, a definitiv buy if you can find it.
It also has some elements to it that made me think of Pascal Laugier´s monster
Martyrs (2 reviews can be found here at this blog)but this is not as disturbing
or violent as Martyrs.

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08QhCR8YKvc

Chihiro - "They´re so beautiful when you freeze them…"


Trivia: Harumi Inoue is a model, pop singer, actress and a mom (she gave birth
to a child in 2007). Harumi had a role in the 2002 Asakuda kiddo (Asakusa kid)
wich are based on the semi auto biography book of the same name by the living
legend Bīto Takeshi - Takeshi Kitano also known in the wester part of the
world as Takashi "Beat" Kitano.