A housewife, Yasuko, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband, Satoru, and her son, Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s finger when he tries to squeeze a flyer through her chained door. He leaves, but the next day her nightmare starts.
Grimmfest Says: Never screened outside of Japan, and believed lost for nearly 30 years, Banmei Takahashi’s boundary-battering, genre-smashing 1988 cult classic finally makes its belated European cinematic debut. Anchored by an astonishing performance from Keiko Takahashi, the directors wife and regular female lead, as the much-put-upon Yasuko, matched every step of the way by Daijirô Tsutsum’s truly loathsome salesman nemesis, this is a mordant, macabre and magnificently excessive mix of deadpan domestic comedy, sly social satire, chilling stalker thriller, and baroquely bloody home invasion horror, culminating in a conclusion that is both horrific and hilarious. Grimmfest is thrilled to be presenting this exclusive premiere.