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In the Japan of the future, zombies are domesticated as pets and servants. Doctor Teramoto and his wife Shizuko acquire a young victim of the zombie virus, Shara, as their housemaid. They are warned that she must eat a strict vegetarian diet and absolutely no meat. The zombie sets about her domestic work, sparking all sorts of conflicts in the neighbourhood, until an unexpected situation turns the tables. (San Sebastian International Film Festival)
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People always lament the decline of Japanese cinema because, among other things, only adaptations and remakes are being made both in the mainstream and non-studio segments, and then come to the harsh realisation that this practice has its reason and logic. Miss Zombie is one of those rare projects made on the basis of an original screenplay, but it is an absolute disaster in terms of narrative, dramaturgy and stylisation. With respect to the subject matter and the initial idea, it at least had promising potential. It doesn’t use zombies as a cliché from a run-of-the-mill genre flick, but rather as a metaphor for bullying and the oppression of minorities and individuals who in some way stand out from the majority, and thus also for heartlessness and zero empathy. The titular protagonist is situated in the role of an absolute object that the others deal with based on their own arbitrariness. Unfortunately, the particular presentation of these motifs has the form of a tiresome and desperately didactic art-fart that tries hard to be intense, but instead remains only hysterical and unintentionally ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that Andrew Parkinson used the same concept in a zombie film years ago, but incomparably more impressively and effectively.
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