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Hiroshi Mikami, Riona Hazuki

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Directed by: Masayuki Ochiai

Release Date: January 1, 1997

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DVD Release Date: August 14, 2001

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  • MovieGeek13
    March 31, 2008
    MovieGeek13
    More of a weird love story than horror, and the melodrama felt completely out of place.
  • TheSuccessfulHobo
    July 3, 2007
    TheSuccessfulHobo
    The game is much better.
  • VOS410
    August 12, 2009
    VOS410
    Director Masayuki Ochiai (Shutter) brings Hideaki Sena's successful Novel to the big screen starring Hiroshi Mikami and Riona Hazuki (Sakebi a.k.a Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Retribution) in a world being consumed by a growing macrobiotic threat.

    Toshiaki Nagashima (Mikami) is an assis...( read more)tant teacher and a researching biological Scientist with a beautiful wife Kiyomi Nagashima (Hazuki) whom feels lured to grasp more notability from him. In a continuous attempt to receive more attention, she gets into an unprecedented car accident that leaves her near lifeless. Toshiaki's sees his life torn before his eye's and makes an attempt to save her existence utilizing his genetic studies and bring her back to normal status. However, his scientific methods turn for the worst.

    Normally I wouldn't declare to pass on this film, but in case you do have some interest in watching it then I'll shed a positive light.

    If you had played the survival horror role-playing game (in which I myself had played the game and finished) which was based on a sequel to the novel then you'll have the same interest as I had that may just be enough to keep your interest level going when watching the movie.

    The first quarter takes you exactly where you want your attention to dwell as the topic on Mitochondria becomes something of significance. Unfortunately the film befalls excessively fictional with some outlandish special effects that may have over-killed the flow of the film. However, this soon picks up the interest level during the last quarter with a sincere feel of an ending that may just want you to play the video game once more.

    The video game released by Square (now Square Enix) was a continuance after the events of the Nagashima's only none of the characters from the film are mentioned in the game except for Eve (not Kiyomi) and her world domination. It's a great game and relatively simple to pass without much trouble.

    For some more information visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_Eve_(video_game) and in addition they did make another video game in which I wasn't able to play, but after viewing this film I may want to look into playing them again.
  • ahhh1989
    May 30, 2009
    ahhh1989
    Decent Sci-fi horror though it is extremely slow-paced, which may irritate a lot of people.
  • THEoFRESHMAKER
    June 7, 2008
    THEoFRESHMAKER
    is this based on the game????!?!?!?
  • cacutshaw
    March 6, 2008
    cacutshaw
    Enjoyed the novel (a bit ashamed to say it was too scientific for me to love it. But hats off to the writer for making a novel about mitochondria) so I'm hoping the movie's good as well.
  • ThrghAGlassDarkly
    February 22, 2008
    ThrghAGlassDarkly
    I used to play a game called this sad to say that was more fun to play than watching this. Not enough action it it.
  • evilkimberly
    January 18, 2008
    evilkimberly
    Haven't seen this yet, but I want to because the game was awesome!
  • afritz0
    January 9, 2008
    afritz0
    Really great movie they should make second
  • aprilneo
    September 10, 2007
    aprilneo
    One of the best Japanese movies I've seen. It's a strange thriller/ love story/sci-fi. Watch out for that mitochondrial DNA. Riona Hazuki is one of the most beautiful women in the world.

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  • aprilneo
    September 10, 2007
    aprilneo
    Mitochondria Eve is a fictional character who serves as the main villainess in both the Parasite Eve film and game series. All Eves are actually women who have been taken over by the consciousness of the mitochondria in their cells. All the Eve incarnations have many powers, but they all possess a single, common power: the ability to cause living animals to combust.

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