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Midori: The Camellia Girl

2016 · 91 min

A grim, hallucinatory descent into suffering and grotesque spectacle that leaves you unsettled and heartsick.

Directed by
TORICO
Genres
Drama, Horror
Starring
Risa Nakamura, Shunsuke Kazama, Misaki Morino
Overview
14-year-old Midori is the constantly abused chore girl for a freakshow. Things begin to change for her after a dwarf magician joins the freak show, but not always for the better.

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Directed by
TORICO
Genres
Drama, Horror
Starring
Risa Nakamura, Shunsuke Kazama, Misaki Morino
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • trauma
  • isolation
  • survival
  • violence
  • madness
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror8
Humour2
Realism6
Romance3
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, horror
Directed by
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Written by
TORICO
Starring
Risa Nakamura, Shunsuke Kazama, Misaki Morino, Takeru, Daichi Saeki, Motoki Fukami, Akihiro Nakatani, Miyuki Torii
Music
Hitomi Kuroishi
Cinematography
Takeshi Sone
Runtime
91 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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