Isola: Multiple Personality Girl

2000 [JAPANESE]

Drama / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller

7
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 549 549

Plot summary

When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped

Director

Toshiyuki Mizutani Photo
Toshiyuki Mizutani

Top cast

Akira Ishida Photo
Akira Ishida
Norihisa Hiranuma Photo
Norihisa Hiranuma
Takashi Miike Photo
Takashi Miike as Disheveled man on a cart
Kazuhiro Yamaji Photo
Kazuhiro Yamaji as Tatsurô Moritani
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857.91 MB
1280*696
Japanese 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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1.56 GB
1914*1040
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mightymezzo

a strange dark dream

This was shown on International Channel as "Isola: Persona 13." I found this interesting, with its references to the stories of "Ugetsu Monogatari" and characters whose lives have been upended-- physically and spiritually-- by the 1995 Kobe earthquake. The girl Chihiro's world was shattered long before this, by the car accident which killed her parents and her subsequent abuse at the hands of the uncle who adopted her. The film captures the quiet agony of characters who are "different" in a society that values cohesion and uniformity. The events and revelations play out rather quietly until the end, and the film rewards the viewer's patience and attention.
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 5 / 10

Weirdness

Reviewed by paul_haakonsen 4 / 10

Definitely in a league of its own...

I have seen the cover for this 2000 Japanese mystery movie a couple of times since 2000, but I actually never gotten around to watching the movie before now, late in 2022. And honestly, I don't know why, especially since I've always found the cover for this movie to be interesting.Writers Hiroshi Hatajima, Mugita Kinoshita, Atsushi Kuwahara and Toshiyuki Mizutani managed to deliver something odd here. Sure, "Isola: Tajuu Jinkaku Shôjo" (aka "Isola: Multiple Personality Girl"), was a watchable movie. But the storyline here is one where you really have to pay attention and be very focused. I have to admit that I really didn't fully understand the storyline told here, so the movie was only mildly entertaining for me. But still, I managed to sit through all 94 minutes of the movie.The acting performances in the movie were good. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble here, but they had some talented actors and actresses on the cast list, that's for sure.Visually then this movie is not one that makes use of a whole lot of special effects. And honestly, the movie didn't really need to, because it did quite well with the simple approach.As I now have seen "Isola: Tajuu Jinkaku Shôjo", I must admit that I am sitting here with a sensation of not having missed out on a grand cinematic moment in Japanese cinema history. Yeah, it was watchable, but the storyline just didn't latch unto me.My rating of director Toshiyuki Mizutani's 2000 mystery lands on a four out of ten stars. This is not a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time though.
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