Thank you, I really enjoyed it. I was born in 93, so I missed a chance to watch 80~90's horror movies at theater. Sometimes, especially when I watch a masterpiece film like this, I feel like I was born in wrong time.🤣
Spoilers for those that don't understand the ending:
The reason why Yuki (the tomboyish girl) was the killer was entirely by accident. Dr. Rei Aku mentally stripped Yuki down to her core and implanted in a fake traumatic event to give her some sort of "clarity" or self reflection for trying to join a cult in the first place, this is how he "deprograms" his patients (tbh thou he claims he deprograms people but he actually reprograms them). This backfired as the bullshit traumatic event lead Yuki into becoming an artificially-created serial killer. Apparently, Yuki had some sort of hidden innate natural-born-killer type shit going on inside her, hence all the Nietzsche talk, and this false trauma awakened it by accident. Aku was trying to perfect and fine-tune his treatment with Yuki and this ambition to perfect his methods and not get shut down by the psychiatric community explains why he kept her around instead of reporting her killings to the authorities. In the scene were Yuki attempts to shake Suma's hand is her acknowledgement that both of them have been corrupted by the doctor, which explains that….
……Suma was brainwashed the whole time, Dr. Rei Aku had brainwashed her into becoming his companion back when they were young academics. (1. She was the daughter of the dean. 2. Her mind is valuable and 3. She's beautiful, duhh). That's why in the beginning of the movie when they are both in the cave and he turns off his light she freaks out — because without his influence on her she basically has no control over herself, he is the master of her destiny. Even when he left her to go to America and came back 8 years later she still falls for him…hell, her husband that she was with wasn't really a husband if you catch my drift! 🤣 Her false reality that she attempted to build on her own starts crumbling around her faster then a cookie in milk as soon as Aku comes back into her life, and boy does he get a kick out of toying with her fragile sense of self. Like the old saying "if you really love something then you have to set it free" he genuinely loves her and that's probably why he ultimately deprograms her, well that and her snooping around is becoming a nusance lmao.
Basically, the whole movie was just Dr. Rei Aku trying to clean up the mess he created by trying to patch up poor ol' Yuki before she killed again and "deprogramming" Suma in the process. He is most definitely the villain of the film and he gets away scot-free, and the ending scene very much mirrors the ending scene in Chinatown for those who know your movies, where the Detectives (and audience) know exactly what the fuck is up but can't do shit because their is absolutely no evidence to connect him to the murders: he had Yuki kill herself and he "deprograms" 😉😉 Suma
Thank you for the upload! Arrow Video's Blu-Ray release of Burst City (1982) a few years ago still gives me hope for more remasters of Ishii's work, especially Angel Dust as its essentially a lost masterpiece at this point. I remember discovering that William Gibson dedicated his novel Idoru (1997) to Ishii and then they almost made a film together…the things that might have been!
It’s funny how I found this … looked up faith no more angel dust album and found this… not disappointed at all I love Japanese horror and never watched this before
I like the directing style, at least some of it. And the background score as well. Although at places, scenes did get annoying but i loved its weirdness.
Ah, I love Ishii and this film was really good but it felt like something was missing for me. I feel like his true masterpiece might be Labyrinth of Dreams at this point.
If anyone thinks they can adequately explain what the hell happens in this movie feel free to add a plot synopsis to the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Dust_(film)) I created the article itself but I don't know if I could actually write a plot synopsis for the film.
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Thank you so much for this. I love this movie.
What’s this from? Was there ever a release with English subtitles on DVD? I’ve been hunting for this for a long time now.
ありがとうございます😊✨
Me gusto.
arigato
Thank you, I really enjoyed it. I was born in 93, so I missed a chance to watch 80~90's horror movies at theater. Sometimes, especially when I watch a masterpiece film like this, I feel like I was born in wrong time.🤣
Feels like if David Lynch made a point-n-click adventure game, really really cool movie.
good film. does anyone know the name of the 2nd track that plays during the credits? it's a banger
Arigato for the upload!
Great movie, but god that ending is just so evil it just makes me feel terrible
masterpiece! we need a bluray edition
i love the colour grading of this
Interesting movie the cinematography and colors look great shame that it's quality here is low I'll soon try remastering this to 4k.
Thank you!
Spoilers for those that don't understand the ending:
The reason why Yuki (the tomboyish girl) was the killer was entirely by accident. Dr. Rei Aku mentally stripped Yuki down to her core and implanted in a fake traumatic event to give her some sort of "clarity" or self reflection for trying to join a cult in the first place, this is how he "deprograms" his patients (tbh thou he claims he deprograms people but he actually reprograms them). This backfired as the bullshit traumatic event lead Yuki into becoming an artificially-created serial killer. Apparently, Yuki had some sort of hidden innate natural-born-killer type shit going on inside her, hence all the Nietzsche talk, and this false trauma awakened it by accident. Aku was trying to perfect and fine-tune his treatment with Yuki and this ambition to perfect his methods and not get shut down by the psychiatric community explains why he kept her around instead of reporting her killings to the authorities. In the scene were Yuki attempts to shake Suma's hand is her acknowledgement that both of them have been corrupted by the doctor, which explains that….
……Suma was brainwashed the whole time, Dr. Rei Aku had brainwashed her into becoming his companion back when they were young academics. (1. She was the daughter of the dean. 2. Her mind is valuable and 3. She's beautiful, duhh). That's why in the beginning of the movie when they are both in the cave and he turns off his light she freaks out — because without his influence on her she basically has no control over herself, he is the master of her destiny. Even when he left her to go to America and came back 8 years later she still falls for him…hell, her husband that she was with wasn't really a husband if you catch my drift! 🤣 Her false reality that she attempted to build on her own starts crumbling around her faster then a cookie in milk as soon as Aku comes back into her life, and boy does he get a kick out of toying with her fragile sense of self. Like the old saying "if you really love something then you have to set it free" he genuinely loves her and that's probably why he ultimately deprograms her, well that and her snooping around is becoming a nusance lmao.
Basically, the whole movie was just Dr. Rei Aku trying to clean up the mess he created by trying to patch up poor ol' Yuki before she killed again and "deprogramming" Suma in the process. He is most definitely the villain of the film and he gets away scot-free, and the ending scene very much mirrors the ending scene in Chinatown for those who know your movies, where the Detectives (and audience) know exactly what the fuck is up but can't do shit because their is absolutely no evidence to connect him to the murders: he had Yuki kill herself and he "deprograms" 😉😉 Suma
Thank you for the upload! Arrow Video's Blu-Ray release of Burst City (1982) a few years ago still gives me hope for more remasters of Ishii's work, especially Angel Dust as its essentially a lost masterpiece at this point. I remember discovering that William Gibson dedicated his novel Idoru (1997) to Ishii and then they almost made a film together…the things that might have been!
Does anyone know the name of the opening song?
Thx bro, great film
obsessed with this movieeee!! Does anyone know if there's a link to the soundtrack?
Takeshi Wakamatsu is creepy.
What a maniac😂
based aku
The laundrette scene is one of the most chilling things ever, flawless filmmaking
Do you have Dust of Angels (1992, Taiwan) ?
Loved this movie! Thanks for uploading it
What a terrible film. Very badly directed.
頼むからリマスターしてBlu-rayで出してくれ
Thanks for the upload. Saw Mirrored Mind randomly a few months ago and wanted to watch more from Ishii and this one was also sooo good
It’s funny how I found this … looked up faith no more angel dust album and found this… not disappointed at all I love Japanese horror and never watched this before
What’s is the
Last song that plays at the end of the credits ?
I like the directing style, at least some of it. And the background score as well. Although at places, scenes did get annoying but i loved its weirdness.
Ah, I love Ishii and this film was really good but it felt like something was missing for me. I feel like his true masterpiece might be Labyrinth of Dreams at this point.
If anyone thinks they can adequately explain what the hell happens in this movie feel free to add a plot synopsis to the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Dust_(film)) I created the article itself but I don't know if I could actually write a plot synopsis for the film.
Thanks for uploading
this movie reminds me of a visual novel i played called the silver case
Wow