Organ - A 1996 Japanese Horror Movie

Directed by Kei Fujiwara

Written by Kei Fujiwara

Starring Kei Fujiwara, Kimihiko Hasegawa, Natsuyo Kanahama, Kenji Nasa, Ryu Okubo, Tojima Shozo, Shun Sugata

The Asian Cult Cinema Collection

Organ Synopsis

Two horrific and blood-drenched stories intertwine in this graphically violent feature film from Kei Fujiwara (star of TETSUO)

A tokyo police officer falls victim to a Yakuza body-parts selling syndicate. Numata, the officer's brother, investigates and discovers the evil Yuko, leader of the syndicate. The alternate plotline involves Seaki, Yoko's Biology teacher brother, as he conducts experimants on the reanimated, limbless body of the missing police officer... keeping him alive from with the blood taken from high school virgin girls.

Additional Info for Organ

Rating: R

Feature Length: 105 minutes

Language: Japanese

Press Quotes for Organ

"... the audience is subjected to an endless array of hideous and grotesque imagery, perhaps the most perverse scenes ever captured on film." - The Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia

"ORGAN is not a film to see on a full stomach. It's fetid atmosphere of abnormality will have you screaming to
be let out. And yet, you keep watching, fascinated..." - Pete Tombs, British Film Critic

Organ Movie Review

Organ is a very sick and twisted Japanese gangster/horror movie with plenty of stomach churning gore, perverse and surreal scenes and extreme violence, that we have come to expect from the more experimental and creative Japanese directors.

To go into the storyline is going to be quite difficult as I’m not sure that I actually managed to decipher the plot. It starts with a couple of cops trying to bust an organ harvesting ring with little success. One of the cops is captured and taken away to a lab, the other cop (who is his brother… I think) is then on a mission to save him and destroy the organ harvesters… I think.

The movie then follows two stories one of which is the escaping cop tracking down the organ gangsters and the other one is the captured cop being kept alive in a cupboard with no limbs and plant growing over him, he manages to survive limblessness with the help of a scientist (who I think is the brother of the head organ harvester) and virgin blood!

I knew I’d struggle to explain the plot and to further confuse issues the two stories are interspersed with a number of surreal artistic scenes. I think the director was going for emotional responses and atmosphere rather than a solid story and he achieves this quite well. The whole movie is quite bloody, puss-filled, violent and perverted and definitely leaves you in the knowledge that you have just watched something truly horrible… even if you were not sure what!

If you are looking for a horror movie with meaning, revelations and loveable characters then don’t bother with this, if you are open to the concept of a movie as art then give it a go just for the visuals and the mind-bombing effect that it has. I will watch it again and maybe fird some deep meaning buried amongst the surrealism, and if I find that then I’ll probably give it more than three stars… for now just three though!

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