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After dealing with the entertainment industry in the harshest of ways in “Frantic”, Shugo Fujii decided to make his realistic but quite pointed remarks on the news industry this time, taking as his starting point the whole coverage of the Covid and particularly the vaccines.

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After an intro inside a car that eventually shows that what we watch next is much more complicated actually, we are transferred to the building of a TV channel, where two rather intense “fights” are taking place, regarding a news special that is questioning the safety of a new vaccine. The producer of the program is being grinded to re-edit by a powerful news host, Satomi, along with a number of network executives, and the producer’s superior, who, despite stating that he has got his back just a moment before, eventually also turns against him.

Following on the footsteps of “Mimicry Freaks” on of the most brutal, most extreme and most weird horror films of 2019 is not exactly an easy thing to do, but Shugo Fujii’s next title, “Frantic” is even more ambitious, as its base is extremely meta, revolving on a film about a stage play, before it turns into something completely different.

“Frantic” is based on Fujii’s own stage play and will open in Japan, November 12.

The film begins in a theater in Japan, where a crew of actors who also seem to act as directors and every other role involved in a movie, are about to present a play to the amassed audience. Something, however, is obviously amiss, and Fujii gradually presents the events that led to the show, starting months ago. Sho, an actor, is ridiculed in a casting session, Tatsu, another actor, also cannot get a break, while...