Over Your Dead Body

2014 PG-13 1h 51m

6.0 / 10 62

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6.0/10

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An actor named Kosuke plays the role of Iemon in a stage version of Yotsuya Kaiden and his new lover Miyuki plays Oiwa. However, as they delve deeper into their respective performances, the line between fantasy and reality becomes obscured until the murderous, vengeful themes of the play bleed into their own relationship.

Director Takashi Miike

Writers

Kikumi Yamagishi

Stars

Ichikawa Ebizo XI Ko Shibasaki Hideaki Ito

Ichikawa Ebizo XI

Kousuke Hasegawa / Tamiya Iemon

Ume Ito / Rio Asahina

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EmkEyen 12 Mar 2018

8/10

I don't know much about theatre in Japan, but I associate this movie to be similar to the the little Noh I have seen, even though the stage play in center of the narrative is based on the play "Yotsuya Kaidan" from the later period of Kabuki theatre. Kuime takes you on a mesmerizing journey of two, if not three or more, parallel narratives where the on stage facilitates the backstage drama. Th...