This
movie was adapted from a SciFi novel by Hideaki Sena in
1997. The film would be the inspiration for a popular Playstation video
game [some of the game events are lifted directly] and numerous animated
productions followed as well. Here is the story of a young scientist
named Toshiaki at the University School of Medicine. He specializes
in mitochondria, the study of cell division. After his wife is injured
in a near fatal car accident and diagnosed as braindead, he removes
one of her liver cells, code name Eve. Toshiaki attempts to cultivate
Eve in a cloning experiment but the cell starts multiplying at an astonishing
rate with unexpected results.
After
a decade of television work, Masayuki Ochiai made a name for himself
as one of the directors for the award winning horror omnibus TALES
OF THE UNUSUAL. A bit later, he was tapped to end the long-running
JUON
[Grudge] franchise, with JUON:
THE FINAL CURSE. Lead actor, Hiroshi Mikami, was already firmly
established with such hits as TOKYO
DECADENCE and SWALLOWTAIL
BUTTERFLYplus his debut in Shuji Terayama's GRASS
LABYRINTH. Co-star Riona Hazuki is best known as the female
hitwoman in Takashi Ishii's two BLACK
ANGEL films.
A
Japanese film, with English subtitles; widescreen format,
120 minutes, encoded for ALL REGIONS NTSC,
playable on any American machine; Extras include selected trailers.
