Miss Zombie 2013
- Director: SABU
- Based on the book: no.
- Cast: Makoto Nugashi, Ayaka Komatsu, Tôru Tezuka
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- None of them
- Why? A Japanese zombie film is a must for any self-respecting cineaste, am I right?
- Seen: 27 10 November 2021
A
middle-class Japanese couple with a little boy buy a low-grade zombie (Nugashi)
to be their servant. She is not deemed dangerous, but they keep her in the storage
shed. She’s a sad, pathetic figure, treated well enough by the wife (Komatusu),
not so well by the husband (Tezuka), and bullied by the neighbourhood kids.
Day after day she slowly, slowly scrubs
the patio floor, never speaking, never looking up. Until…
It’s low-key, poetic, painful to watch,
and beautifully filmed in black and white (mostly) with Mount Fuji in the
background.
It’s the oddest and saddest zombie film I’ve seen, and it raises all sorts of existential questions about how we treat the Other, and how the Other reacts. There’s a bit of gender drama too.
4* of 5
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