Rokuro Mochizuki shares honors with Takeshi Kitano and Takashi Miike as being one of the two most important yakuza film directors of modern Japan. Moving on from his award-winning Onibi he pushes the genre further by throwing the strict code of the yakuza straight out the window! Small-time con man Jiro (Shunsuke Matsuoka) makes his living tricking small businesses out of large sums of money. In the process he acquires a helpmate Kumiko a refugee from her stepfather's sexual abuse. But things start to get out of control when yakuza boss Kamewada (Shohei Hino) muscles in on the action.
Asuka (Reika Hashimoto) an aspiring model moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She takes up residence with a moody acquaintance named Kasumi (Kaori Kawamura). Across the street from their apartment Asuka witnesses a bizarre murder - the body was flayed disemboweled and arranged into a hideous work of art. A series of coincidental murders occurs all of which contain what is possibly the murderers calling card: a black lip print dubbed The Black Kiss. This gruesome crime thriller in the tradition of Silence Of The Lambs and Sevenwas originally known as Synchronicity (Shinkuronishiti).
Freezer is a disturbing thriller from director Takashi Ishii about Chihiro a woman trying to escape the memories of being raped by three men while they filmed the incident. She leaves her hometown to start a new life and five years later is a professional working in Tokyo engaged to one of her colleagues Yusuke. Without warning one of the rapists appears and threatens to turn her life into a living hell with news that the other two are on their way with the videotape of the rape
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