The Neighbor No. Thirteen

DVD Review: Tokyo Shock version. 2 Disc set. Depending what you get, you'll get a tee-shirt with the package, a documentary, MTV thing, deleted scenes, making of and some sneak peek thing. The picture quality is good and audio is good.Movie Review: SO(!!!!!!!!!!) did I watch a paradox, a delusion or WHAT?!?!? I don't get it. I thought the majority of the movie was the reality until I read the opinions of these people saying that the final moments of the movie is the reality. WHAT? Well if that is the case, this movie sucks. I just watched a delusion; a hypothesis. And if THAT'S the case then what's the point of it all??? Plus the acid thing made no sense either. When acid is poured on your face it leaves a scar and yet the protagonist didn't have one (though his alter ego did). *shrugs in consternation* Alrighty then. Well, anyways, the violence is good... Oh wait! That never happened! The horror elements are good..... Oh that's right! That didn't happen either! The story is revenge based which is typical but adding the element of an alter ego who is psychotic was great.... OH! THAT NEVER HAPPENED EITHER!!! So if the paradoxical conclusion was real then this movie was ruined from the beginning and (leaving me to give all of you a logical berating) only a delusional moron would find this movie brilliant.Conclusion: 4 stars for the DVD, 1 star if the finale was real or 3 1/2 stars if the finale was not true at all but a "what if" scenario in which I THOUGHT it was but apparently I am wrong.

for me it was hard to follow at first. It took me some time to understand what was going on in the movie. The start and the end were confusing to me. I had bought it to see how Yumi Yoshimura was as an actress; I feel she did an excellent job in the movie. I'm a Puffy fan so I wanted to see her performance. The main theme of the movie was about bullying that was a problem in Japanese schools and revenge, etc. Some of the scenes were over the top by American standards but I tried to keep it in the Japanese prospective. I feel I would not have bothered with the movie if it wasn't for Yumi Yoshimura.

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This Movie made the switch from one pesonality to the next so easy to follow. It was a little off in some places, but it was still pretty good though.

"The Neighbor No. Thirteen," is a strange thriller that might not appeal to many tastes, however, I liked the film. The story centers on the character Murasaki Juzo (Oguri Shun). When Murasaki was a young elementary student he was constantly picked on by fellow classmates, and one in particular named Akai Juzo. In one of Akai's moments of bullying he even has his friends hold Murasaki down while he forces Murasaki to eat excrement. However, the most horrific bullying that Murasaki encounters is when Akai's friends hold him down one day while Akai pours acid onto his face.Flashforward into the adulthood of Murasaki: and Murasaki's life has been permanently changed due to the trauma of his childhood experiences. One day, while working at his construction job, he noticies that new neighbors have moved into his building. And thus begins a spine-chilling thriller. At his construction job, Murasaki encounters his childhood nemesis. Akai has not matured into an adult, but is still the bully that Murasaki remembers as a young boy. When Akai locks Murasaki in the outdoor comode he is using, Murasaki crashes it open sending Akai to the ground. Only there is a change in Murasaki. Murasaki has a different appearance, and the alter-ego of Murasaki has emeged. After years of repressed and built up rage, the face the viewer sees is that of a blind and scar-faced man.Akai continues to harass Murasaki, however, Akai does not know that Murasaki lives in the same building as he does. Akai neither knows that Murasaki knows his wife and child, nor does he know that the rage inside of Murasaki is about to explode. The viewer is unaware if what they are watching are the psychotic delusions of Murasaki, or if these are real events that Murasaki is going through. Especially how he is depicted physically. But it is the emotional trauma of Murasaki that has allowed his alter ego to finally take hold of him and now controls him. I will not spoil the film for you, however, it does have a strange twist. Especially concerning the acid spilled on his face. Recommended. Rent it first.

This was quite a surreal head trip of a film about a guy who is bullied throughout his life, and as a result ends up creating another personality for himself as a defense mechanism. This other personality is the opposite of himself... a take no prisoners, morally inept, and cold hearted tough guy. Things get interesting as one of the protagonist's biggest bullies from his youth move in a floor above him at his apartment complex. This movie is the perfect example of why I love Asian films... stuff gets crazy and surreal pretty quick, and before you know it you'll realize this film isn't playing by the rules... it takes some real chances. I always appreciate it when a film doesn't seem confined by what it 'should' be... American films could stand to learn a lot from movies like this. I definitely recommend this one to any of you slightly more adventurous movie fans out there. 4.25/5 stars.

Young man who was viciously bullied at school starts his first job and recognizes one of the supervisors as the boy who gave him such a hard time. Not only that, he's just moved into the same apartment block where the man lives with his family. The resentment he conceals has created an alter ego which goes looking for revenge. But instead of a second-rate Incredible Hulk story, this turns out to be an interesting well-made film, strange and atmospheric. Worth a look.