Trick: The Movie

Trick: The Movie

2002 · 119 min · JA · 6.6 (18 votes)
Dir. Yukihiko Tsutsumi · Starring Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe, Katsuhisa Namase, Kazuki Maehara, Yoko Nogiwa, Naoto Takenaka · Trick Collection
ComedyCrimeMystery

Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing as a god. When a series of bizarre incidents occur, Naoko is cornered with a genius physicist (Hiroshi Abe) and Detective Yabe (Katsuhisa Namase). Do deities actually exist, or are they charlatans?

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This film feels like a fever dream, blending bizarre humor with a creeping sense of dread. It's a mind-bending mystery that questions belief and reality, leaving you delightfully disoriented and questioning everything.

surrealunsettlingquirkydarkly comedicsteadyJ-horror adjacentoffbeat mysterystylizedfaithdeceptionsuperstitionreality vs illusion
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