Dead Girl Walking

Koji Shiraishi really is great at creating haunting & tragic stories. this film honestly by far exceeded any expectations i had. with its beautiful, isolating B&W cinematography, themes of belonging & connection and the horror of being alive as your body rots.

genuinely just such a morbidly beautiful yet depressing film, with its sombre piano score and a story of someone just seeking connection and help, only to loose it from all they loved. Shiraishi really is an underrated director, and this film is absolutely underrated. 

really hope to see an HD restoration of this film as it for sure deserves one. the Hideshi Hino Theatre of Horror series is absolutely excellent so far, but this one will be hard to beat! only 44 mins long and yet packs a beautiful punch. also, the ending is absolutely perfect. check it out!

Koji Shiraishi really is great at creating haunting & tragic stories. this film honestly by far exceeded any expectations i had. with its beautiful, isolating B&W cinematography, themes of belonging & connection and the horror of being alive as your body rots.

genuinely just such a morbidly beautiful yet depressing film, with its sombre piano score and a story of someone just seeking connection and help, only to loose it from all they loved. Shiraishi really is an underrated director, and this film is absolutely underrated. 

really hope to see an HD restoration of this film as it for sure deserves one. the Hideshi Hino Theatre of Horror series is absolutely excellent so far, but this one will be hard to beat! only 44 mins long and yet packs a beautiful punch. also, the ending is absolutely perfect. check it out!

i fucking love this! the tone is just perfection and i love how its acted so seriously, but with a twinge of over dramatics and camp to it... the transitions and overuse of that one musical cue honestly heightened it for me?? idk it added an element of like NICK-at-night uncanniness, that was especially resonant with the beginning, the almost-ending, and the business-men-circus-attraction scene. very interesting watch, kinda lynchian feeling, esp with the black and white, but like if lynch did an adaptation of mai-chan's daily life. honestly tho this is masterful, at least in the way it balances the tragedy and sadness its steeped in with the weird, quirky, BONKERS shit happening... yuri is so sad... and so pale, and bruised... she just like me fr

i fucking love this! the tone is just perfection and i love how its acted so seriously, but with a twinge of over dramatics and camp to it... the transitions and overuse of that one musical cue honestly heightened it for me?? idk it added an element of like NICK-at-night uncanniness, that was especially resonant with the beginning, the almost-ending, and the business-men-circus-attraction scene. very interesting watch, kinda lynchian feeling, esp with the black and white, but like if lynch did an adaptation of mai-chan's daily life. honestly tho this is masterful, at least in the way it balances the tragedy and sadness its steeped in with the weird, quirky, BONKERS shit happening... yuri is so sad... and so pale, and bruised... she just like me fr