Speaking of Japan, I believe everyone is familiar with it. After all, island movies are famous in the world. Maybe many people have a few T island movies in their hard drives.
Today we are going to talk about a Japanese horror film "The Mermaid of the Sewer"
Mermaid stills
The Mermaid of the Sewer is directed by Hino Hiroshi, Maru Somei, Shigeru Saiki , Masami Kuben, Toshigetsu , etc. The film starring "The Mermaid of the Sewer" is the fourth part of the Japanese underground experimental film "Guinea Pig Series". It was adapted by director Hirohiro Hino based on his own creation of the same type of Marvel comics. starring. The film accuses that in the industrial age, under the unscrupulous defilement and trampling of nature by human beings, clear rivers have turned into dirty sewers, and the mermaid, which symbolizes beauty and dreams, has become ugly and miserable due to infection with viruses. dead story.
The male protagonist is painting
The story tells about a painter who is mentally depressed and . He often goes to the sewers to find materials, until one day he actually met the mermaid he had seen in the sewers.
The mermaid is very beautiful, which inspired him Inspiration,
he has always wanted to draw a portrait of a mermaid, and finally got his wish. But the mermaid got a strange disease and her abdomen was festering. He quickly took the mermaid home and placed it in the bathtub .
The mermaid's disease could not be suppressed even by medicines. Soon the mermaid was covered with tumors, and colorful pigments flowed out. After
, maggots and internal organs began to flow out. Died, the painter finally collapsed, he dismembered the mermaid and took out a dead baby from the womb.
Stills
The shots and effects of this film did not use post-production special effects, but were all done with makeup techniques and various props.
In the film, the rotting skin of the mermaid is performed by the actor wearing a special rubber holster that imitates the rotting skin. Some of the more unique and offbeat close-ups are shot directly at the mold rather than the actor, while the mermaid is crawling on the body. The maggots that came out were actually the sandworms that are very common in the vegetable market, and the colorful pus from the mermaid pustules was a bunch of colorful dyes.
Mermaid picture
There are many clips in the film that use the combination of beauty and ugliness to enhance the contrast and irony effect, for example:
The small river is clear, pleasant and vibrant, but the river in the film has become covered with pollution due to pollution. Dirty sewers with the smell of death,
Babies and cats are lively things, but the babies and cats in the film are long dead, and lie silently in the filthy sewers;
There is only one famous work that has been handed down by the truth of Somei. "The Mermaid of the Sewer", but it has been remembered by the audience for half a century; her character is not lovable, but it has caused countless people to cry for her; she has disappeared now, but some people still worship her For the goddess, a sad and sighing "mermaid" archetype.
Somei Truth
I found a few stills on the Internet, but because the pictures are too disgusting, I didn't put them up. If you want to know how disgusting, you can search on the Internet (best not, otherwise you may not be able to eat).
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