Imprint

2006 "Watch your mouth."
6.9| 1h3m| en
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An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.

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Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!
Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Smoreni Zmaj Even if the story doesn't take place in Japan, it is clear at first glance that this is a Japanese director. Takashi Miike did an excellent job. The film is slow and gradually brings you into the story, building an extremely strong atmosphere. On the visual side it is perhaps the best episode so far, and the scenes of violence will freeze the blood in your veins. But it seems to me that the scriptwriters did not devise the whole story in time, and the end gives the impression of over-the-top improvisation, which brings this horror drama to the edge of absurd comedy, similar to Henenlotter's B horrors. That's why I can not go over7/10
boudreas The last one in the series was a stinker. First if you want to watch this hour long piece of crap that you will never get back, make sure your either well drunk up or baked out of your tree. Do not watch it with any form of female, they would freak out at certain parts. First half of the flick was slow, terrible and the main actor was terrible. Picture a stick twig anorexic version of Clint Eastwood with gay hair. Second half was better but also took a sharp turn to F town. Fetus disposal, strong hands growing out of heads, Kimomo Siamese twin whores. Those are just some of the messed things that went on. Maybe the Asian version makes sense, but the English one clearly does not.
walk_wild777 Pornographic, unscary, nothing of any value. I am not by any means offended by gore. I am a fan of Argento, Lucci, and the like. I have no problem with shocking scenes as long as the movie itself is entertaining or worthwhile.I found not a slice of entertainment anywhere in this film. It focuses only on the most base and deplorable aspects of human existence, and it does so for seemingly no reason. No one, not a character, nor a viewer, walks away from this film any better for the experience. The viewer isn't even rewarded with a sensical ending. I have nothing but questions, and frankly I don't care if they are ever answered.
amazing_sincodek "Imprint" is pretty cool.For some reason, even though everyone else loved them, I was bored to death by Takashi Miike's films "Audition" and "Ichi the Killer." Having heard them hyped as shockingly horrific and over-the-top violent respectively, all I found to like about them was a decent sense of aesthetics. I couldn't stand the "surreal" conclusions or the endless spooky/deep scenes which I found meaningless and try-hard; I thought the violent scenes were too-little-too-late, and I thought all the characters were hollow or obvious.A few of these things arguably describe Imprint, but unlike "Audition" and "Ichi," Imprint had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. The story is a classic one, told, however, with the perverted twists you would expect from Miike. A drifter comes looking for the girl he left behind, and instead finds an ugly woman who tells him a spooky story about what happened to his love.Two things make "Imprint" pretty cool. First, there are a number of really unpleasant scenes that make it emotionally stimulating. It covers all the bases--abortions, mutations, rape, graphic torture, and of course murder. Second of all, minimal time is wasted with incoherent spooky/deep images. There are occasional shots of a spooky-looking tree, for example, and one shot of a spooky-looking face in the background that never gets explained, but most of the time is spent developing the plot and/or showing the above mentioned unpleasantries. Additionally, given the ghost-story plot, these things I have typically found obnoxious in Miike's style actually add a charm to the story. The film almost has an around-the-campfire feel, and so these elements are perfectly appropriate.An advance warning--the ending IS kind of stupid. I laughed out loud.But. In short, it's pretty cool. If you're a Miike fan already, you'll probably love Imprint. If, like me, you haven't been a fan, Imprint might change your mind.