Kotoko
Movie • 2011 • Horror
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A single mother (Cocco) becomes afflicted with double vision. Taking care of her newborn baby becomes a nightmare as the mother also becomes paranoid. The only time the mother doesn't see double is when she sings. She also finds solace in cutting herself, allowing her blood to drip free and able to feel alive. A terrifying nervous breakdown ensues. When things spiral out of control, her baby is taken away. She then rides a bus and sings to herself. A man (Shinya Tsukamoto) sitting nearby listens to her wonderful voice. He begins to stalk her. The man is an award winning novelist who has fallen in love with the woman. They begin a volatile relationship. The woman's paranoia a
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halaya
a woman is suspected of abusing her son and later imagines abusing her son, although it is likely that she did not actually abuse him.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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although there is no gaslighting, this film is completely centered around a struggle to understand what is real and what is not.
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Is someone stalked?
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The main character is stalked by a man to the point he forcefully enters her apartment
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Is someone restrained?
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a character is (consensually) tied at the wrists with electrical cords in one scene. various characters, especially the main character, are held down or forced down screaming multiple times.
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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the protagonist imagines her son damaging his eye with a pencil. later, her son is seen wearing an eyepatch.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Towards the end the main character imagines someone shooting her baby in the head. It’s not real, but still very gory and disturbing to watch.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Main character cuts her wrists in many scenes
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A character is beaten offscreen for a couple of scenes, but shows the very bloody aftermath
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Does a kid die?
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The main character imagines scenarios where her child died (dropping him off a roof, getting run over by a car), but the only death shown is the child getting shot in the head. Kotoko does talk about killing her son, however his death isn’t shown onscreen and is implied that he may have lived.
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Fear
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there are abrupt cuts between quiet and loud scenes that may startle or frighten some.
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Is there audio gore?
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There’s a lot of jarring and loud noises that can be disorienting if that’s what this means
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Kotoko is in a mental institution at the end of the movie.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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this movie contains several graphic self-harm scenes.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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the protagonist has very violent anxiety attacks that are edited in a way that is meant to cause stress to the viewer. during these anxiety attacks, the protagonist screams at the top of her lungs and acts erratically.
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Anxious moments and moments of delusion are accompanied by aggressive shakey cam
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Does a baby cry?
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Several scenes with a baby crying in the early parts of the movie. They are deliberately very stressful
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Two characters are shot. The second one is shown in extremely graphic detail
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