Takashi Miike's latest film, Over Your Dead Body, follows a theater production of a play based off the classic ghost story "Yotsuya Kaidan'. The main protagonist is played by Miyuki, a Star actress, who pulls some strings to have her significant other, Kosuke, cast as one of the other leading roles. When a nasty love triangle begins to form between Miyuki, Kosuke, and another young actress, who plays Kosuke's love interest in the play, life and art begin to blur, taking a bloody and supernatural turn. Takashi Miike's Over Our Dead Body is a puzzling, yet intoxicating story that sees the lines between reality and fantasy blur as it proceeds towards Miike's typical violent conclustion. Over Your Dead Body is a gorgeous film, featuring stunning set design that together with Miike's visual prowess create an atmoshperic experience that may be Miike's most beautiful film to date. While the film does take a while to get going, being surprisingly dull at the beginning, Over Your Dead Body makes up for it late, delivering a subversive journey into a fractured actresses' psyche, who feels abandoned by her lover. Towards the end of the film the line between life and art for these characters is completely shattered, with Miyuki confronting Kosuke about his transgressions. Of course being a Miike film, Over Your Dead Body takes on a ultra-violent, supernatural element towards the end that doesn't really make a lot of sense, but it is a lot of fun anyways. In a way, Over Your Dead Body feels like Miike's homage to the classic japanese horror films, dealing with a supernatural element while still delivering Miike's brand of violence one has come to expect.
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June 2023
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