MERMAID LEGEND
DISCOVERY SCREEN 3
SATURDAY 24 AUGUST - 3.30 PM
SUNDAY 25 AUGUST - 4.00 PM
Director: Toshiharu Ikeda.
With: Mari Shirato , Kentarô Shimizu, Jun Etô, Seiji Miyaguchi.
Japan 1984. 110 mins.
RETROSPECTIVE - UK PREMIERE - It’s the 40th Anniversary of a rare exploitation cult movie that has never played any film festival outside of its native Japan or ever released in any format internationally. From the late Toshiharu Ikeda, director of EVIL DEAD TRAP (1988,) comes a tale of powerful vengeance. When a fisherman is killed by greedy land developers for standing in the way of their expansion plans, his pearl-diver wife Migiwa moves into unforgiving and vindictive payback on those yakuza responsible. Framed for her husband’s murder and forced to shelter in a brothel, hell hath no fury as the bloody battles begin.
FrightFest features horror, fantasy, science fiction and thriller films with an overall 18 rating. Therefore, all films will feature an assortment of the following: supernatural/alien threats, strong language, upsetting scenes, violence, gore, blood, suicide, monstrous menace, tobacco products, creature mayhem, psychological intimidation, sexual imagery, death, child endangerment, maiming, religious profanity, abusive behaviour, bullying, nudity, drug use, strobe lighting and racial stereotyping.