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Director:
Higuchinsky
Writers:
Junji Ito (manga)
Kengo Kaji (supervising screenwriter)
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Release Date:
11 February 2000 (Japan) more
Genre:
Horror more
Plot:
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. He seems... more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Eriko Hatsune ... Kirie Goshima
Fhi Fan ... Shuichi Saito
Hinako Saeki ... Kyoko Sekino
Eun-Kyung Shin ... Chie Marayama
Keiko Takahashi ... Yukie Saito
Ren Ôsugi ... Toshio Saito
Denden ... Officer Futada
Masami Horiuchi ... Reporter Ichiro Tamura
Taro Suwa ... Yasuo Goshima
Tooru Teduka ... Yokota Ikuo
Sadao Abe ... Mitsuru Yamaguchi
Asumi Miwa ... Shiho Ishikawa
Saori Nakane ... Little Kirie
Yasuki Tanaka ... Little Shuichi
Yuki Murakami ... Yukky
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Spiral (USA)
Vortex (Hong Kong: English title) (subtitle)
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Runtime:
USA:90 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo | DTS-Stereo
Certification:
UK:15 | UK:18 (DVD release) | South Korea:15 (video rating) | South Korea:18 | Germany:16 | Singapore:PG

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Trivia:
The movie was filmed before the manga had completed its run, and reveals a different ending and origins storyline than that featured in the manga. more
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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Great Fun!, 19 October 2002
Author: LadyPirotess from Swansea, Wales

After reading a review of this film on a Ringu site I just had to get it and I managed to get an import once I got a multi-region DVD player and I don't regret it! A very quirky little film that follows Kirie a cute school girl in a small town in Japan where strange things keep happening, spirals appear in strange places and people take on obsessions with spirals which eventually drive them to their deaths. There's little spirals through the film, you just catch in them out of the corner of your eye, others are bigger and more obvious. You never really find out what's going on, but it's a great little black comedy-horror :)

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