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May
24
2008

American Trailer For Higuchinsky’s LONG DREAM!

Posted by Todd Brown at 12:26pm.

Posted in Trailer Alerts , Cult, Horror, Asia.

Japan’s Higuchinsky is something of an enigma in my mind.  Back during the height of the J-horror boom the man burst into public consciousness with Uzumaki, still one of the most striking and unique horror films to ever come out of Japan.  There’s nothing else like it and the obvious level of skill and force of vision behind the film immediately made Higuchinsky one of the hot directors to watch in Japan.  And then he went and squandered all that good will by making Tokyo 10+1, an ultra low budget Battle Royale knock off that is so inexcusably bad that, as near as I can tell, Higuchinsky disappeared from the film scene entirely after its release.

But before Uzumaki Higunchinsky turned heads with a much lower budgeted but no less striking film titled Long Dream.  Based on work by the same manga artist as Uzumaki the combination of the two films makes Higuchinsky’s later failure much more puzzling:  clearly there are very few people in this world capable of capturing ominous dream logic on film as well as he does.  Long Dream has long been more talked about than seen but that is about to change with American indie label Tidepoint Pictures poised to release it on domestic DVD soon.  We’ve got the US trailer for the film embedded in the Twitch Player below the break so you can check it out for yourself.

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Reader Comments

  1. kindaikun 05/24/2008 @ 5:04pm

    Looks interesting… Unfortunatly I can’t shake from my head images of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace…

  2. TheOrientalNightfish 05/26/2008 @ 12:08pm

    This sounds a lot like the video feature which was reviewed under the official English title of ‘Nightmare’ by Midnight Eye here: http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/round-up.shtml

    In a reversal of the norm, it’s ‘Long Dream’ which is the literal translation of the original ‘Nagai Yume.’

  3. sarkoffagus 05/27/2008 @ 5:03am

    I’ve seen LONG DREAM. It’s great, visually stunning and more creepy than UZUMAKI. I wish Higuchinsky was still making films.

  4. DJ 808 05/29/2008 @ 7:59pm

    I got this film right after I saw Uzumaki…
    I must agree this is visual treat considering its “made for T.V.” budget.
    We can only hope Higuchinsky will return to form.

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