Buta no Mukui (1999)

Name: Buta no Mukui
Genre: Drama
Released: 2022-05-28T13:58:16+02:00
Rating: 3

Drama | 118 minutes

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Genre: Drama

Duration: 118 minuten

Alternative titles: The Pig's Retribution / 豚の報い

Country: Japan

Directed by: Yôichi Sai

Stars: Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Michiko Ameku and Mayumi Ueda

IMDb score: 6,1 (37)

Releasedate: 9 July 1999

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Buta no Mukui plot

Sai's second film about Okinawa is largely set on the island of Maja-jima. The virginal 19-year-old Shokichi comes to collect the washed up and sun-bleached bones of his father Shoji, whom he never knew. Shokichi is joined by three hookers who see it as a vacation trip - until they are all struck down by food poisoning, presumably from eating rotten pork liver. Pigs play an equally important role in this story as they do in Okinawan mythology, in which they have the ability to steal people's souls.