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Homunculus

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Truth and illusion blurs when a homeless amnesiac awakens from an experimental medical procedure with the ability to see people's innermost traumas.
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Charles Hartford But Why Tho? A Geek Community Homunculus delivers an interesting premise that I think makes some solid observations about trauma, how it can linger longer than we realize, and what the costs of dealing with it can be. Rated: 6.5/10 Jan 16, 2023 Full Review Pieter-Jan Van Haecke Psychocinematography "An attempt to offer something fresh to the horror-table, but one that, sadly, fails to blends its pleasing parts into a whole that truly engages and pleases the spectator." May 8, 2022 Full Review Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse "Homunculus" has some good points, but Takashi Shimizu is definitely past his prime, the adaptation is faulty once more, and the SFX and Go Ayano are not enough to salvage a movie that ends up aggressively mediocre. Jul 18, 2021 Full Review James Hadfield Japan Times The longer the film goes on, the harder it is to say who "Homunculus" is for. Rated: 2/5 May 17, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Margo M Any movie that tries to back a sexual assault with "good intentions" by its protagonist is a hard pass for me... Personally. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/14/23 Full Review This movie is terrible. I want go back to before l saw this. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/08/23 Full Review Cinna B An absolutely terrible movie. Poorly written characters, a plot that progresses agonizingly slow in the first half but then desperately rushes to shoehorn in a bunch of different plot points in the second half, a main character that violated a teenage girl in order to "fix" her... This is abhorrent. It's so boring, and the few scenes that actually catch your attention are unnecessary or do not make sense in reference to the rest of the storyline at all. Watching this movie was a nauseating experience. If you're thinking about watching it, don't. This is not worth your time. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/30/23 Full Review Heidi L Right smack in the movie is a sexual assault and I can't for the life of me understand how the protagonist is thought to be doing this in order to save the victim. It's sickening. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 04/04/23 Full Review Audience Member As someone who didn't read the manga, I really liked this movie. The plot was solid, cinematography perfectly captured the mood ( minus the SFX), and acting held up. My only gripe would be the devolpment in some of the characters was a little shady, with the main character doing some bad stuff with it being presented positively. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review carlos t Minha opinião: Pura #neuramental eles fazem um buraco na testa ou onde dizem ficar 3ª visão. E essa cirurgia fazem ele ver os temores de sua vida. E ele passa ajudar as pessoas com esses traumas. E neste momento vão aparecendo as verdadeiras intensões de Ryo. E Começa uma corrida de um em busca do outro. Pois oque mexeram podem alterar toda a realidade. Para quem gosta de filmes que mexem com a #psiques humana vai gostar deste filme #japones. È um filme fora da caixa. Roteiro: boa, apesar de várias reviravolta. Vale apena assistir? Sim, para aqueles que curtem tal estilo de fimes. Nota: 8 Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Truth and illusion blurs when a homeless amnesiac awakens from an experimental medical procedure with the ability to see people's innermost traumas.
Director
Takashi Shimizu
Producer
Harue Miyake, Chikako Nakabayashi
Screenwriter
Hideo Yamamoto
Production Co
Booster Project
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Japanese
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 22, 2021
Runtime
1h 55m
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