Title: Organ (1996)
Director: Kei Fujiwara
Review: I wanted to like this movie, after reading so much about all the gore in it, I was expecting to have some decent fun with this one. Unfortunately I couldn't understand what was happening on the screen most of the time so the fun factor went right out the window.
What I could grasp, from the little bit I could understand is that some Yakuza gangsters are selling humans to a demented doctor and his one eyed sister because they take human organs from the bodies and sell them on the black market. Only problem is that they Yakuza are selling them people who ain't dead yet.
I tried to understand what this muddled mess was about, I really did. In fact, I thought maybe I was too tired to understand it and decided to watch it the next day when my head was clearer, but unfortunately, that didn't help one bit. Seriously, I like movies that are hard to understand. Heck I love films like Mullholand Dr. and Lost Highway. But I just couldn't get what the rest of the film was about.
It starts out quite promising with these gangsters bringing in these bodies into a slaughterhouse for the doctor to open them up and take their organs. And the atmosphere through out these first few minutes is very dark, bleak and dirty. I liked that. The first 10 minutes really pull you into this messed up world. But a few minutes after that the movie gets way to abstract and hard to follow.
This is where I learned that without a good story...lots of gore is worthless. I mean there were some cool bits of gore and guts. Lots of gooey, slimy tentacles. Lots of human entrails. But somehow it didn't really matter. The only thing I got besides the overall premise was that the two people doing the black market selling of the organs had a really messed up youth and so they ended up being the crazy people that they were. But aside from that, its all to abstract.
The only good points on the film are that its got a dirty atmosphere. Bleak, rusty, dirty. I liked the realistic gritty look of the film. The gore for the most part was well executed. But thats about all the good things I can say about this movie.
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone out there, unless of course they liked gooey, green muck and gore with no story.
Rating:1 1/2 out of 5
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