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Black Swan
Why this pick
Like Helter Skelter, it turns a woman’s pursuit of impossible professional perfection into feverish body horror, with a claustrophobic, stylised descent under the pressure of being watched.
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MOVIE2012 2h 7m JPN
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Its immaculate clinical interiors and fixation on surgical transformation make beauty and the body feel unsettlingly unstable. It pairs Helter Skelter’s visual opulence with an increasingly sinister mood.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Top star Lilico undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries to her entire body. As her surgeries show side effect, Lilico makes the lives of those around her miserable as she tries to deal with her career and her personal problems.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Erika Sawajiri
Lilico
Kaori Momoi
Hiroko Tada
Shinobu Terajima
Michiko Hada
Nao Omori
Makoto Asada
Anne Suzuki
Kumi Hosuda
Kiko Mizuhara
Kozue Yoshikawa
Hirofumi Arai
Kinji Sawanabe
Yosuke Kubozuka
Takao Nanbu