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Uzumaki

Uzumaki

Mystery · Fantasy · Horror · 2000

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

Movie details

Uzumaki

“Out of this world.”

2000 Mystery · Fantasy · Horror 1h 30m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.1 / 10

10.1K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

61 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

62 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.0 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Uzumaki?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Higuchinsky

Written by

Kengo Kaji

Eriko Hatsune

Eriko Hatsune

Kirie Goshima

Fhi Fan

Fhi Fan

Shuichi Saito

Hinako Saeki

Hinako Saeki

Kyoko Sekino

Shin Eun-kyung

Shin Eun-kyung

Chie Marayama

Keiko Takahashi

Keiko Takahashi

Yukie Saito

Ren Osugi

Ren Osugi

Toshio Saito

Denden

Denden

Officer Futada

Court is in session

Put Uzumaki on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.