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Uzumaki is a Japanese horror film directed by Higuchinsky. Uzumaki, released in 2000, was based on Junji Ito's episodic manga of the same title, Uzumaki.

The Japanese word uzumaki (渦巻), often translated as "spiral," is generally translated as "vortex" in the context of this movie. The plot concerns a town infected with malevolent spirals. This abstract concept manifests in grotesque ways, such as a teenager's long hair beginning to curl and take over her mind, or a corpse wound around itself.

Amongst many bizzarre features of the film is a heavy treatment with green colour filters, aping the stype of the colour plates in the manga, and the fact that the trailer for the film is a pastiche of Jean-Luc Godard's seminal trailer for À bout de souffle (1960).

The movie covers some of the notable stories from the manga, with varying degrees of faithfulness. The movie and the manga have different endings.

Its theme song was "Raven" by the band Do As Infinity, which was on their "Yesterday & Today" single.

Plot

Kirie goshima lives in a pretty normal town. Until the day her classmate falls to his death from the top of a spiral staircase. Bizzare things start to occur, including a person whose hair grows in an uncontrollable spiral pattern, her boyfriend's dad jumps into a running washing machine, and a boy gets trapped benath the tire of a car twisting in such a way as to become a spiral. Can Kirie save the town and herself before the spiral takes complete control?

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