Gusha no bindume

I just saw this at the (excellent) Raindance Festival.

Psychic girl Luchino sets off for school in a dystopia future japan where the society is based on huge great building of 200 stores connected by elevators. She accidentally causes an explosion when escaping from being caught with an illegal cigarette by the Surveillance Bureau.

She boards a lift on 135th floor and as she rises towards the lower-numbered levels, she is joined by a microbiologist with a briefcase full of money and something else; a woman with a pram that she says has a baby in it; a young guy whose headphones and dark glasses seem to cut him off from his surroundings; and there's a smartly dressed and very efficient lift attendant. Then on level 99 - Penal Colony - a rapist and a bomber and their guard get on.

Of course things go wrong.

Like all good Japanese horror, they don't waste time unnecessarily resolving stuff. And Luchino's visions provide us with all the exposition.

Paranoid, violent, gory and genuinely compelling. Visually and aurally stimulating.