Banned from Broadcast: Saiko! The Large Family

This wonderfully compelling S. O. V 'mockumentary' has fictitious Canadian filmmaker Veronica Addison shooting an in-depth overview of the large, outwardly charming, yet increasingly troubled Ura family. Almost immediately, many blackened secrets are uncomfortably revealed, with, perhaps, one remaining tantalizing buried to the bitter end. Banned From Broadcast: Saiko! The Large family is another wickedly engrossing, beautifully staged, and superbly acted shock-singed exercise in Asian FF creepiness. I'm not exactly sure why, but many Japanese genre filmmakers seem to have an innate talent for creating immersive, wholly believable, supernaturally inclined suburban vistas. The gripping narrative has a subtle, consistently unsettling undertow which I strongly responded to. This rewardingly emotional piece feels eerily authentic, the fractured family, the love that can catastrophically turn to hate, plus the constantly seething discords are all too disturbingly recreated in Toshikazu Nagae's darkly engrossing FF chiller.