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Anazahevun (2000) A veteran cop (Yoshio Harada) and his young sidekick (Yosuke Eguchi) are on the case of a serial killer who removes and cooks the brains of her victims, leading to a barely-workable running joke about a troop of junior officers running off to vomit at regular intervals. The killer, a runaway high school student (Yukiko Okamoto), is a frail-looking woman with amazing strength, and the movie takes a detour into The Hidden / Fallen territory as the girl is trapped with her latest victims and 'something' passes from her skull to that of one of her prospective victims; the original killer dies, and the witness carries on the murders, adopting a flirtateous attitude to Eguchi, who is torn between his duties and a relationship with an unconventional girl (Miwako Ichikawa). The body-hopping murderer, who claims to be a ghost returned from a boring heaven to make the world a bloody playground, passes in liquid form among the supporting cast, eventually slipping into the heroine, who has numbed herself with a morphine overdose and is able to control the creature while begging the hero to kill her. It's an overlong movie with odd see-saws of tone between the comic,
straight action / horror and skewed romanticism, but director-writer
George Iida stages effective rampages and chases, and Ichikawa is an
interesting presence as a pawky, big-eyed heroine who proves herself
more resourceful than the cops. First published in this form here. Visit Kim's Official Website at www.johnnyalucard.com
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