

“An ambitious work blending live-action and animation.”
Late at night at the office. Shizuka Tani swallows a snail from a tank and is rushed to the emergency room. She was unharmed, but the whole company was talking about her. One day, Shizuka starts to masturbate in her room while listening to her sister and her boyfriend having sex, and an insect worm, which claims to be a servant of Enma the Great, appears from her anus…
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Original Language
JA

The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, she sacrifices parts of herself and her life, piece by piece, in order to win his love. At the same time she enters a mythic journey in the theater. One that forces her to face the many abuses endured by women around that world and that blurs her performance, her dreams and her real life and results in a provocative and powerful confrontation that frees her. -- from official website

Ichirô Aiba
An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.