The one element underlining all three characters’ existence is the unending need to run for survival. Read More Japan’s Takeshi Kitano to Play “Sympathetic Pervert” in New Film Project Fighting her way out of the mess, her flight then leads to a marathon in which the runner Izumi ( Erina Mano) competes against villains and monsters bursting onto the scene from the previous chapter. On the run again, her story morphs into that of Keiko ( Mariko Shinoda), a 25-year-old woman readying for her wedding, where the happy smiles and well-wishing guests soon melt away as she is rushed down the aisle toward a potentially purgatory-like future. Mitsuko has barely eased into her new environment when her good times are shattered by yet another bloodbath. The only survivor of this calamity is Mitsuko (Austrian-Japanese actor Reina Triendl), who dodges the murderous airstream and flees to a town where, somehow, students she doesn’t know acknowledge her as a longtime friend and classmate. Even for those who have seen Sono’s previous notorious gore-fests like Strange Circus or the Kill Bill-aping Why Don’t You Play in Hell?, the film’s first part will still come as a visceral shock, as a mysterious wind arrives out of nowhere to abruptly (and literally) strike two coach loads of schoolgirls down on a country road.
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