Junji Ito's: Nagai Yume (2000) - Asian Horror Movie Review
Welcome to Sensei Sensibility! You are the hungry mind, yearning to devour Asian horror themed cinema; I am the (questionably) knowledgeable Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. Chances are, you’re familiar (at least in passing) with Master of Horror Junji Ito. As a highly-acclaimed, prolific manga-ka, Ito carved his throne of nightmares with grotesque and surreal genre-pushing imagery and storylines. Often blending horror and sci-fi, the beauty of Ito’s terror is the fact his works depict scenes that are beyond the day-to-day imagination and comprehension of us mere mortals. How then, do you take the monstrous, otherworldly works of Ito off the page and onto the screen? Generally, with great difficulty. Enter Higuchinsky’s Made For T.V. movie Nagai Yume , (2000) better known in the west as The Long Dream. While there are certain Junji Ito stories that lend themselves to cinematic adaptation - Tomie , for example, centring round an attractive “human...