Synopsis

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer ..... and it escalates! (I guess this a drama)

Official Review

Black Comedy is a dangerous beast. Even in the best of situations, better than half of your audience is probably not going to get it. Translated from Japanese and running subtitles along the bottom of a television screen in bright white even further lessens the impact. Basing said black comedy on a novel by Japanese Literary Enfant Terrible Ryū Murakami (AUDITION) is also hardly going to win you any points for homogenization of the subject matter either. For Western Audiences, it does us an equal disservice to try and understand fully the culture vortex that spawned the source material in the first place. In other words, most Americans are ill prepared to fully understand and relate to what makes KARAOKE TERROR a comedy. Frankly, the film has everything going against it, in terms of crossing the Pacific and landing on US soil with any of its bite and wit left intact. So, what makes the film work? Let’s take a look. …Read More