one Cast edit
| role |
performer |
remarks |
|
mermaid
|
Ranai Truth /Mari Somei |
The mermaid who once lived in the river near the painter's home died of the virus after the river was polluted. |
|
painter
|
Qi Mumao /Shigeru Saiki |
A decadent painter, who lost his wife a month ago, once saw a mermaid in the river when he was a child. |
| Female neighbor |
masami hisamoto /Masami Hisamoto |
A considerate and polite Japanese woman with a little gossip |
| Male neighbor |
Li Chonggang/G ô Rij Not |
The male neighbor's name is "Guangzhi" |
|
police
|
Tsuyoshi Toshishige |
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three Gags edit
（1） The lens and effect shooting of this film are not processed by special effects in the later stage, but are all completed by makeup technology and various props.
（2） The mermaid in the film skin and flesh The rotten scenes are specially made by actors to imitate the rotten skin rubber Some are unique and special close-up The lens is shooting directly at the mold rather than the actors, and the maggots crawling out of the mermaid are actually food market It's very common in Sand silkworm From the mermaid pustule be riotous with colour The pus is made of a pile of colorful dyes.
（2） The mermaid was cut down in the film be split The broken limbs are actually made of bricks and then painted with various colors of dyes Gypsum The previous works of similar technology in the sewer mermaid, namely《 Devil's Experiment 》、《 Bloody Flower 》、《 He won't die 》It is also widely used. <The above contents are described in the "Gags of Making Guinea Pigs" of the photo party for reference only.>
1. The river is clear, pleasant and lively, but the river in the film has become full of death because of pollution dirty sewer ，
2、 baby And cat They are all lively things, but the baby and cat in the film have already died, and silently Lying in the dirty sewer;
3. Mermaid is a legendary creature that symbolizes beauty, fantasy and romance, but in the film it is ugly because it is covered with pustules;
4. Pustules and pustules are disgusting and ugly things, but the pustules in the film are colorful.
（4） The director of this film, Riichi Hino, is a Japanese horror cartoonist at the master level. He has written a large number of works, such as "Poisonous Insect Monk", "Hell Girl", and "Strange Files". Most of his works are known for their absurdity, darkness, blood, absurdity, grotesque and rich connotation. His short cartoon "The Strange Disease of Zang Liu" is regarded as a rare masterpiece in horror cartoons. The plot of the cartoon The description is very similar to "The Mermaid in the Sewer", so many people regard it as the creation prototype of "The Mermaid in the Sewer".
（6） Qi Mumao, the actor of the painter in the film, is a very famous actor in Japan. He has performed in "The Mermaid in the Sewer"《 Skin cutting love 》, The Adventures of the Bombing Battalion《 Detective Conan Live Edition 》A large number of films.
（7） The movie posters of "Guinea Pig Series" found on the Internet can all see the words "DVD" in the lower right corner of the posters. In fact, this film was originally launched in 1988 Video tape In the form of Germany The Demon Film Company reissued the 8-disc set version of the "Guinea Pig Series". At this time, the "Guinea Pig Series" was circulated on DVD. The movie poster of the "Guinea Pig Series" found on the Internet was the movie poster used by the German Demon Film Company at this time, so it had the character "DVD". [3]
four Film analysis edit
From then on, the distributor changed from ORANGE VIDEO HOUSE, the production and distribution company of AV animation, which was very well tuned at that time, to JAPAN HOME VIDEO, a more specialized B-level horror film, (Maybe it is no longer satisfied with the poor distribution channel of ORANGE VIDEO HOUSE, maybe it is a major purpose to change the style, or it is more likely to foresee the short life of ORANGE VIDEO HOUSE. With the change of the issuer, the series has also started a new stage, with a special reference to The, New Guinea Pig added to the name The series also presents a more and more significant development prospect with its reborn appearance.
This work is the most familiar one in the series. It is adapted from the strange cartoon of the same name by the director Hino Rizuchi. Compared with the previous three series, this work has added a real story, which makes the time of this work longer. However, many people still only pay attention to the disgusting scenes of variation+heterotypic organisms stimulating the intestines and stomach, which appear to be the most important part of the film, but they ignore the strong warning behind it. So I have to introduce the plot in a little detail.
The main character of this work is the painter Qi Mumao. His wife left home one month ago and did not return. The painter who was upset naturally walked to the sewer that he used to pass. He did not expect to meet the mermaid he had seen before. When the painter was painting the mermaid, he found that the mermaid had some strange problems in the sewer, So he took it away from the increasingly dirty sewer with the development of industry to his home.
The mermaid kept in the bathtub became increasingly infected, but still insisted on the painter recording his real face with a brush, so the painter could only add dirty colors to the canvas again and again, and finally the mermaid died.
The artist who was in a mental breakdown cut the decayed and mutated body of the mermaid with a knife, and finally broke the mermaid into pieces. The neighbor couple who were curious about the painter's abnormal behavior rushed to the painter's home and found that the painter had divided his wife and dug out a fetus.
Finally, the painter was diagnosed as schizophrenic and imprisoned, but in the painter's room, he found a fish scale that the Japanese Fish Research Society could not distinguish
Some people think that this work is a way to spray blood by virtue of the mermaid myth, and some people think that the painter killed his wife who dreamed of being a mermaid. In fact, from the original comic book of Hino Sunrise and some subsequent works, it can be found that the director's intention is to reveal the corrosion and alienation of the industrial society on people's pure mind, the original beautiful and pure wife, the original clean and grassy sewer, Under the influence of the so-called industrial civilization, they are no longer beautiful and pure, no longer clean and green, but become ugly and dirty. Even if they want to change all of this, they can only watch it happen helplessly because they are powerless and unable to resist; Even the newborn fetus will eventually be alienated by social pollution, and only death can truly get rid of all this.
The last mermaid scale also reveals this nihilistic value, but it is perfectly combined with the pessimistic atmosphere of the film itself. [4]
This film can be called the most meaningful work in the whole series. (This paragraph is from the entry "Guinea Pig Series" of Baidu Encyclopedia.)
five Film Theme
The place where the painter lived was a beautiful river when he was a child, but it was gradually polluted and turned into a sewer. The painter's mentality was very decadent. His bedroom and furnishings in the film were full of decadent feelings. He often went to the sewer to paint, such as the dead baby in the painting. The sewer is really a bit disgusting, but it's not so disgusting that people can't eat. One day, when he was painting a dead baby in the sewer, he suddenly heard a noise. He went looking for the sound and found a mermaid! It was the mermaid he had seen in his childhood! At this time, he realized that his preference for running down the waterway was actually due to the subconsciousness of childhood memories. He found that the mermaid's waist was injured (a very disgusting tumor, which will become more disgusting later), so he took her home and put her in the bathtub. At this time, the mermaid asked him to draw a portrait of her, and the painter agreed. In the process of painting the portrait, the injury of the mermaid became more and more serious. The tumor expanded to the chest, the whole body, the head, and began to flow out colored mucus. Finally, the tumors burst one after another, and many worms drilled out (the worms looked a little like earthworms and maggots). At this time, the picture was very disgusting! After that, the mermaid's stomach burst, her intestines and so on all flowed out, and a lot of worms came out of her mouth, her eyes also flowed out, she said to the painter that she was very painful to ask the painter to end her life. So the painter killed and dismembered her, and found that there was a fetus in her belly (the fetus had two feet, not a mermaid). The painter was crazy. Later, neighbors found blood leaking from the ceiling and called the police. The painter was charged with murdering his wife. This film wants to reflect the theme of human beings: human pollution of nature will destroy all beautiful things, and eventually will destroy human beings themselves. But what the director did was a little disgusting. [1]
six Series Overview
There are six "Guinea Pig Series" in Japan: ("Guinea Pig Series" is also called "Experimental Film")
1. Demon Experiment 1985
Mermaid in the Sewer
2. Bloody Flower 1985
3. He won't die 1986
4. Cellar mermaid (also known as sewer mermaid) 1988
5. Virgin Robot 1988
6. Devil Woman Doctor 1990
The international Chinese version of Encyclopedia Britannica explains Guinea Pig as: "A domesticated rodent guinea pig, native to South America. It was domesticated before the Inca era. Soon after the discovery of America, it was introduced into Europe, and soon became a popular viewing animal and valuable experimental animal". It can be seen that guinea pigs are just domesticated animals for people to enjoy and conduct experiments. It is strange that although the theme of "guinea pigs" series films is "experiment", there is not a real guinea pig in the film. The "guinea pig" we see is a living, bloody human body. [3]
