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Homunculus

Homunculus

20216.01h 59m

Overview

A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.

Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Written by Eisuke Naito, Hideo Yamamoto, Takashi Shimizu
Produced by Chikako Nakabayashi, Harue Miyake
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Top Cast

Go Ayano

Go Ayano

Susumu Nakoshi

Ryo Narita

Ryo Narita

Manabu Itou

Yukino Kishii

Yukino Kishii

Mysterious woman

Anna Ishii

Anna Ishii

Female High School Student 1775

Seiyo Uchino

Seiyo Uchino

Kumicho

Y

Yumiko Nakamura

Themes & Keywords

supernaturalmedicinebased on mangatrepanation

About Homunculus

Homunculus is a drama, thriller film released in 2021 exploring themes of supernatural, medicine, based on manga, trepanation. Directed by Takashi Shimizu, it stars Go Ayano, Ryo Narita, Yukino Kishii. A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.

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