I bought this DVD because I enjoy Japanese cinema - stuff by Takashi Miike, you know the drill. This movie has terrible acting, bad make-up and gore effects, and is almost completely worthless. It's stupid, and almost painful to watch. I figured with being made in 1999 - and released in 2003, it would be relatively up-to-date with it's filming and effects - but it looks like a heaping pile of B-Trash from the early 70s. You can't pay me enough to watch it again. All of you other people who gave this movie high marks must be happily living in the past - or you haven't seen a new movie in over 30 years.To put it short, Junk is junk - and the only thing it's good for was making my small DVD collection look a little bit bigger.