Trailer & First Images From Takashi Miike’s “Over Your Dead Body”

over-your-dead-bodyI love Takashi Miike! Ichi The Killer was the first movie my wife and I watched together, Imprint is one of my favorite DVDs, we celebrate his entire catalog, and soon we’ll be able to add Over Your Dead Body.

Getting its premiere in the Vanguard section of the Toronto International Film Festival, running September 4-14, is Takashi Miike’s bloody haunter, Over Your Dead Body, and we have the trailer, as well as the first images from the film.

A star, Miyuki Goto (Ko Shibasaki) plays Oiwa, the protagonist in a new play based on the ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan. She pulls some strings to get her lover, Kosuke Hasegawa (Ebizo Ichikawa) cast in the play, even though he’s a relatively unknown actor. Other performers Rio Asahina (Miho Nakanishi) and Jun Suzuki (Hideaki Ito) lust after Miyuki. Off stage the cast’s possessive love and obsessions exist as reality. Trapped between the play and reality, the cast’s feelings for each other are amplified. When it becomes clear that love is not meant to be both on and off stage, love turns into a grudge and crosses the blurred line between reality and fantasy.

Ebizo Ichikawa, Ko Shibasaki, Hideaki Ito, Miho Nakanishi, Maiko, Toshie Negishi, Hiroshi Katsuno and Ikko Furuya star.