An assailant (Watanabe Kazushi) cracks Kiyoshi (Kenichi Endo) on the head with a rock. The victim is the patriarch of a depraved family and this act of violence mysteriously enables the stranger to enter their unhappy home. Dysfunctional does not even begin to describe this family unit which consists of a prostitute daughter (Fujiko) who turns incestuous tricks, a son (Jun Moto) who viciously beats a junky mother (Shungiku Uchida) and the father who videotapes all the unsavory behavior in hopes of revitalizing his television production career with a reality program he'd like to call True Bullying. Their visitor tightens the family bonds through truly unusual methods as he videotapes a murder and guides Keiko to excessively lactating an apparently healing breast milk.

Takashi Miike's (AUDITION) familial portrait captures a disturbed household that reaches surreal levels of depravity. The unsettling film, shot on digital video, is laced with dark humor and haunting, shocking imagery. The film builds to a final image that can be seen as both transcendent and immoral.

Theatrical Release: June 28, 2002 (NY)

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Letterbox - 1.85
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus

Kenichi Endo: Japanese actor, VISITOR Q/FLOWER AND SNAKE II
Shungiku Uchida: Actor, VISITOR Q (2002)
Kazushi Watanabe: Actor, VISITOR Q (2002)
Shoko Nakahara: Actor, VISITOR Q (2002)
 Fukiko: Actor, VISITOR Q (2002)
Jun Muto: Actor, VISITOR Q (2002)
Ikko Suzuki: Actor, VISITOR Q (2002)

Takashi Miike: Director, DEAD OR ALIVE (2001)

Susumu Nakajima: Producer, VISITOR Q (2002)
Seiichiro Kobayashi: Producer, VISITOR Q (2002)
Reiko Arakawa: Producer, VISITOR Q (2002)

Koji Endo: Composer, AUDITION (2001)

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