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Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town paralyzed.


“Out of this world.”
The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

Eriko Hatsune
Kirie Goshima

Fhi Fan
Shuichi Saito

Hinako Saeki
Kyoko Sekino

Shin Eun-kyung
Chie Marayama

Keiko Takahashi
Yukie Saito

Ren Osugi
Toshio Saito

Denden
Officer Futada

Masami Horiuchi
Reporter Ichiro Tamura

Tarō Suwa
Yasuo Goshima

Toru Tezuka
Yokota Ikuo
Uzumaki is a mystery, fantasy, horror film released in 2000 exploring themes of dying and death, businessman, village, helix, laundromat, based on manga. Directed by Higuchinsky, it stars Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki. The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
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