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Grotesque [Blu-ray] [Non censuré]

Osako Shigeo (Actor) Format: Blu-ray
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Format Blu-ray
Contributor Osako Shigeo
Language Japanese, French
Colour Colour
Number of discs 1

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Japanese, French
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 100 g
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 20 Oct. 2011
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Osako Shigeo
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, Japanese
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Japanese (DTS 5.1), French (DTS 5.1)
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005C9XVDW
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • L D Wilkes
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great Edition Of An Extreme Movie
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 August 2011
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    Grotesque features a couple who are kidnapped, tied up, and submitted to the most graphic and realistic torture of any film. Viewers should only really be interested in the gore here, that's what the movie is about, and it delivers. Although featuring a surprisingly entertaining ending, Grotesque is pure exploitation. Lucky, such a genre has its fans, and this is movie is perfect for those small few.

    The Blu Ray edition comes with two discs - a Blu Ray and a DVD. The transfer is very good, and a few trailers serve as extras.

    The majority of viewers will hate this film and everything it stands for - violence, sexual torture, and expolitation - however, for hardcore fans of Asian gore, this movie will entertain for a disturbing afternoon.
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  • James
    4.0 out of 5 stars brutal!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2017
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    for fans of torture porn this will not disappoint. a bit ridiculous near the end however. Not much in way of a story but violent enough to get you on the edge of your seat
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  • Mellow Matt
    1.0 out of 5 stars Pointless and vile !
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 February 2017
    Awful film just dont see the point of it. As a fan of horror i just dont get these films the lowest of low in my opinion !!
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  • Ginger Nuts
    3.0 out of 5 stars Too much of a drag
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2016
    This Japanese splatter offering is surrounded by notoriety, having been refused a UK DVD release in 2009 by the BBFC, whom I quote in saying... 'Grotesque features minimal narrative or character development and presents the audience with little more than an unrelenting and escalating scenario of humiliation, brutality and sadism.' Scary stuff, but of course it takes more than that to put us off here at Film Gutter...

    Grotesque tells the story (story might be a slightly strong word) of Kazuo and Aki, a man and woman who are captured by a sadistic and unnamed doctor. We catch a little of their awkward relationship in flashback, and after one date she's still not quite sure of him. On their walk home they get abducted and awaken in a grimy, industrial warehouse room, tied down and gagged and unsure of what they are about to face. Unfortunately for them it's an unmitigating nightmare of torture and abuse at the hands of their tormentor, who swears he will let the two go if they can sexually arouse him enough with their 'will to survive'. Well that's a normal thing to say, eh?

    The foreplay for our disturbed doctor consists of stabbing Kazuo in the stomach, groping and sexually molesting Aki and asking them a range of strange questions, including if they would be willing to die for each other. It's a pretty disturbing scene on a psychological level, but there's significantly worse to come for our leads. As the doctor puts it himself at the end of this scene, 'the real pain begins now...'

    The next scene is a distinct step-up from the previous, with our doctor wielding a chainsaw, proceeding to chop off fingers and limbs with the weapon before proceeding to the poor couple's more private areas. Aki loses her nipples to a pair of scissors in a scene that left me distinctly uncomfortable, and would probably be even harder to watch for female viewers. And any male viewers will be equally uncomfortable watching Kazuo getting nails driven into his testicles before having his penis cut off and alarmingly held by our demented doctor who proclaims this is the height of his sexual excitement and decides to let them go. It's an extraordinary scene, in many respects, because it goes from one extreme to another, escalating just when you think there isn't any further room to sicken. The doctor character is truly insane and ably played, calm and calculating on the whole, almost repressed, but capable of great, overblown explosions of emotion.

    Well, it looks for a while there like it's all over, as the doctor sorts out all the wounds suffered by Aki and Kazuo and they set about recovering in a clean white ward somewhere else in the building. The doctor seems to be as good as his word, that is until he changes his mind and offers up an absolutely sickening conclusion for our victims. This one was genuinely gut-wrenching, and I don't want to spoil it for anyone brave enough to have a crack at this particular movie experience. But brace yourself, it's a fitting conclusion that goes places that I don't think I'd ever imagined, let alone seen before.

    So yeah, Grotesque about sums up it. It's a distinctly nasty and unpleasant watch with little to no story, little artistic merit and the general intention of making the viewer sick to their stomach. It's torture porn, and I mean proper torture porn in the sense of Niku Daruma or the first couple of Guinea Pig movies that we've previously endured watching. Despite all the splatter and gore, it doesn't really move at any notable pace until the ending and feels a bit of a drag in places, particularly in its early running. As such, it's a final rating of 5/10 for this one – only for the most hardened of gorehounds, and if you have any interest in plot or character development then this one is likely to leave you sorely disappointed.
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  • Robert Duncanson
    4.0 out of 5 stars Almost the Aristocrats of Disturbing Movies
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 February 2015
    (The opening of the review employs a long windup. Feel secure. A point will be made. After it, others will follow.)

    One of the funniest movies ever made is The Aristocrats which set out to capture the most disgusting joke ever as it is told in the differing styles of today's best comic talents.

    One of the best jokes that recorded a defiance as part of its punch line involves a guy stabbing himself repeatedly with a fork because he knows he is about to be skinned. He does this because after being tanned his skin will be fashioned into the covering for a canoe.

    His last words are, "Take that, you bastards!"

    Three of the most successful horror franchises to date have been:

    Final Destination--for ten years killing young people imaginatively.

    Hostel--an example for eight years of where not to stay, especially if it lacks at least a 1* AAA rating.

    Saw--building Rube Goldberg devices to successfully maim or kill victims for over ten years

    Grotesque makes any victims in the above horror movies look like they really got off easy.

    The male and female victims in Grotesque establish that the Japanese are the world's new and true Spartans.

    If the writers, producers, directors of FD, H, S ever see Kohji Shiraishi coming toward them and if he drops his drumsticks at their feet, all those guys should turn and run.

    The pairing of music and action in thirty minutes is perverse enough to convince me that John Waters to say, "Hold it. Time out. Back it up. Don't do that. OMG!"

    Grotesque is the most disturbing movie yet made.

    No sane person will try to top it--someone insane might have filmed worse but lock him up and forget the monster.

    The ending of Grotesque is straight out of the canoe joke and turns out to be in its own sick way a happy ending if stopped when the screen turns black for about two seconds.

    The last time I felt so overwhelmed by movie violence I was leaving a viewing of The Wild Bunch, feeling like a spectator exiting the Coliseum felt after witnessing hours of bloody murder.

    Played passed where the screen went black for a moment, the movie becomes a Möbius strip to nausea and endless cruelty.

    In terms of comedy (the kindest way of viewing Shiraishi), he stayed on stage too long or didn't know when to end his movie.
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  • Max
    3.0 out of 5 stars grotesque edizione francese
    Reviewed in Italy on 30 July 2013
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    ottimo video e audio ,un film solo per appassionati di horror cruento un torture-porn quasi senza trama,la durata non è quella descritta di 90 minuti,ma di 77minuti,quindi non sò se il film è realmente integrale come dichiarato...poco male perchè basta già quello che si vede e comunque un film solo per chi colleziona horror,non un bel film in sè.
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  • てぃけぃ
    3.0 out of 5 stars グロテスク【北米版】のレビュー
    Reviewed in Japan on 17 March 2016
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    レビュー遅れました 商品自体は問題ない様ですが…ケースのツメが破損していました なので…★3の評価にさせていただきます
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  • Tiberius
    4.0 out of 5 stars Japanese Version of "The Collector"
    Reviewed in the United States on 19 August 2021
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    If you have seen "The Collector" I would say this is very similar with the emphasis on physical torture although both incorproate psychological torment as well. If you have seen "Funny Games", either the German or US version, it incorporates those elements as well.

    This is the kind of movie that does have a decent story line and that,coupled with great acting and daring to be so graphic, make it a solid one. If you are a true movie buff, worth seeing. If you hate graphic violence then it's not for you.
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  • Amazon Customer
    3.0 out of 5 stars Tokyo Psycho Too
    Reviewed in the United States on 2 March 2013
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    Controversial films tend to interest me, and "Grotesque" gained my attention when I read it had been banned by the ever-so-tolerant Dutch. J-horror doesn't do it for me in general - I find it culturally alien and often bizarre. Combine this with the fact that some of Japan's most famous (infamous?) horror outings are outrageously violent ("Guinea Pig" series anyone? No thanks!) and I can take them or leave them (mostly leave them). But, in the interests of staying in touch, I took the plunge into this opus of oriental outrage. I'm not sure I should have.
    A psychopathic doctor kidnaps two young lovers, transports them in a van to his basement lab as the unsuspecting denizens of J-metropolis go about their business, tortures them insidiously both physically and psychologically, keeps them captive and provides medical assistance so he can torture them some more later. He is a remorseless tormentor, devoid of emotion and disengaged from the wider world. His preoccupation with the banal - the quality of his cream cake, for example - overrides any feelings of concern or empathy for his victims, and he remains entirely unconcerned by the depravity of his actions throughout.
    The torture sequences are indeed harrowing and difficult to sit through, and there is an unpleasant sexual overtone to some of it. But despite the film's ominous reputation, not all of the on-screen activity is totally explicit. Shot choices sometimes preclude seeing absolutely everything, which is probably just as well. The impact remains high for the viewer (uncomfortably so), and there is still plenty of material here to alarm the fainthearted. I won't give away the ending, other than to suggest that "He who lives by the sword" (or scalpel, in this case) might also need medical insurance.
    I have heard it said that these types of movies actually reflect the alienation of modern existence and the true nature of the psychopathic mind. For me, however, elements of this film make it impossible to take seriously as any kind of exploration of the nature of evil. Scenes involving the recuperating young captives - in as dire a predicament as anyone could imagine - are absurdly sentimental and totally disconnected from the reality of their situation.
    The Blu-ray is vivid - the movie appears to have been shot digitally in high definition and the disc reflects this suitably - and the DTS audio is flawlessly sharp. There are no special features to be found (not even a trailer), but you do get a DVD copy of the movie as well.
    The "Jolly Roger" logo which appears before the film starts really sets the tone for the ensuing pillaging of one's senses that occurs as you watch. This is one to squirm through for curiosity's sake, but not a truly significant film, J-horror or otherwise.
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  • Dwight W. Hale
    5.0 out of 5 stars Disgusting, but you can't stop watching
    Reviewed in the United States on 13 July 2013
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    This is a movie that will make most people sick. It is ultra-violent, the story has no merit and the leading actor (the man who mutilates) is hideously ugly and cruel. The couple he mutilates are equally odious and we don't care what he does to them--they're a vapid Japanese couple, totally disposable, so part of the entertainment is seeing the couple tortured because they are both so very empty-headed. That said, GROTESQUE is a nasty piece of work, but it cannot light a candle to A SERBIAN FILM.
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