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Japanese film noir leaves a deep impression, 7 August 2008
8/10
Author: fertilecelluloid from Mountains of Madness

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This extremely accomplished example of Japanese film noir managed to induce a sense of queasiness in me. Centering on the life of a successful female doctor (Michiko Sakyo) who saves lives during the day and takes lives during the night, it is a unique marriage of noirish film elements and bizarre horror. Raped on a beach when she was a teenager, our heroine lives with the lasting pain of the experience and destroys every man she stumbles across. Her killing ritual usually involves cutting and poisoning, although she also uses a syringe and is not above giving non-consensual hysterectomies to female associates of the men she despises. Sakyo is utterly convincing and mesmerizing as the sad-faced woman. Despite her callous actions, she is a figure of enormous sympathy, and I found myself really caring for her. The doc's grim life changes when she becomes romantically involved with another doctor, a handsome, silent type who seems to be the exact opposite of what she dislikes in a man. Director Seiichi Fukuda utilizes black and white for the present day story, and employs color for flashbacks and shock revelations; it's a style that works well. "Madame O" is an intensely sad, sometimes macabre, always original piece of cinema. The performances are uniformly excellent and the impression it leaves is a deep one. Highly recommended.

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Last comment fantasy of reviewer, 17 September 2008
8/10
Author: drdaleposey from United States

Well, the review by Mitsukai is completely made up. It's a pretty good joke,however, but don't think that the movie has anything to do with it. It's about this gynecologist who was raped as a child and grows up to become a successful doctor by day and a hustler by night. She picks up men to give them the venereal disease she contracted during the rape. Of course, things get weirder when she finally meets the man of her dreams and falls in love.

A well executed suspenseful movie with a strong moralistic ending, consistent with the times. A bit of nudity and sex but nothing too graphic. Shot in a rather bleak and atmospheric manner with a mixture of black and white and color photography. Worth watching, just don't expect the other reviewer's sushi scene.

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fascinating study of passion,, 11 January 2009
8/10
Author: christopher-underwood from Greenwich - London

Highly original and involving movie, beautifully photographed in b/w and colour. The colour switching can be a little confusing but another reviewer has suggested that the b/w sequences represent the present whilst the colour is for the past and particularly important moments. They may well be right, I shall have to pay greater attention next time. For surely this exciting tale is well worth seeing more than once. From the opening shots in the hospital operating theatre and the childhood rape sequence , mostly in long shot on the beach, till the denouement in the tunnel, this is a fascinating study of passion, revenge and greed. All told in such a matter-of-fact manner, with no give-away music score, that even when there are slightly creaky moments, we believe it all. NB: Please ignore completely the ridiculous fake review by Mitsukai.

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Wrong review...Apologies required!, 1 May 2006
1/10
Author: Mitsukai from Portugal

OK...I'm terribly sorry if I mistook this movie for another one! I remember pretty well about a movie that I spoke of! I sure thought that it was this one...but seems it's not...so, I unfortunately made a mistake. This is my deepest apologies...but the story of the movie I saw is real! I Just don't know which movie belongs too! Caught that movie halfway on a TV channel years ago...and saw that erotic scene only once in my life...and on the TV magazine it said it was the movie "Madame O"! Deeply sad it isn't...even more sad that I don't know what is! But again...my deepest apologies for my mistake! I voted 1 for my unacuracy and also because I never saw this movie! Saw the other one though...and I sure hell wanted to see it again...or at least...know it's name to find it somewhere!

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