Miss Zombie

Miss Zombie is a film directed by Sabu. It was shown at the Busan International Film Festival on October 5, 2013. Running time, 85 minutes. Produced by Yoshiki Kumazawa, Satake Kazumi.

Miss Zombie
Directed bySabu
Produced byYoshiki Kumazawa
Satake Kazumi
Release date
  • September 9, 2013 (2013-09-09)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

It won the Grand Prize at the Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer in February 2014.[1]

Story

In a future-time Japan, zombies are domesticated as servants and pets - the film chronicles a female zombie's 'ordeals and retaliation'.

Cast
  • Toru Tezuka -Dr. Teramoto
  • Ayaka Komatsu -Shara
  • Makoto Togashi -Teramoto’s wife, Shizuko
  • Riku Onishi -Teramoto’s young son, Kenichi
  • also - Taro Suruga, Tateto Serizawa, Takaya Yamauchi.

Critical reception

The film was reviewed favourably at variety.com : - "the low-budget film suggests a cross between Lucky McKee’s “The Woman” and Jonathan Levine’s “Warm Bodies,” Miss Zombie’s exploitation by her “owners” even recalls recent realist dramas about foreign domestic helpers (some scenarios are almost identical to those in Cannes Camera d’Or winner “Ilo Ilo”. "Komatsu (Shara) interprets the character’s transformation — from a stiff, marionette-like figure to someone driven by love and altruism — with a sullen intensity made even more effective by her lack of dialogue. Komatsu made her name as a “gravure idol” (a particular type of pin-up girl in Japan), "and some of her scenes with Teramoto cheekily channel certain genres of Japanese erotica." [2]

gollark: I attempted to completely leave any chat here in the guessing phase out of my decision-making.
gollark: I'm probably going to do [REDACTED], having leaned more [DATA EXPUNGED] and [DATA FILLED WITH BISMUTH] this round, maybe something more [<:bees:724389994663247974>].
gollark: The weird spacing and the `state` array. Or perhaps I just pattern-matched it to "vaguely coltranious" somehow and my brain is trying to rationalize it.
gollark: Well, I assumed you would do something simpleish and yet vaguely esoteric, and you did.
gollark: I had you down as one of the likely candidates for #1 quite easily, but actually *picked* you over other people just because of elimination or something.

References
  1. "La bande-annonce du jour: "Miss Zombie"". Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  2. Lee, Maggie (5 November 2013). "Film Review: 'Miss Zombie'". Retrieved 30 April 2018.
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