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A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Japanese horror is a curious thing, either it's a tale of some begrudged ghost (pardon the pun), an ultra-gore spray fest, or something where women get tied up with ropes and tortured (although these are generally a bit daft and not very shocking from what I've seen). I had high hopes for The Red Room. I always try to avoid reading too many reviews of "controversial" movies as I want the full on experience for myself, free from someone else's (possibly jaded) input. Sadly though, The Red Room wasn't really very controversial at all. Filmed on an obvious shoestring budget The Red Room is a big brother type tale of 4 contestants trying to win 10million Yen by surviving allotted trials suggested by the winner of a card game. Three cards have the numbers 1,2,3 and a fourth has a king symbol. The person who draws the king gets to tell two others what task they must undertake. This starts pretty mild and progresses to the slightly more extreme. The first trial involves 5mins of two girls French kissing (although we later find out one has a penis and is hoping for a complete sex change via the winnings) and It's actually a bit icky, not so much due to the visuals, but the sloppy sound effects they've added to the scene. Actually almost all the trials are the same with yucky sound effects, they're kinda funny (especially later on) but I suppose they are effective in ramping up the horror.The second trial is a girl on a spinning office chair (who pukes at the end), followed by a hairdryer in the mouth scene, and another scene with a man who must assault his wife via punches, and a concluding rape. It's all done in typical Japanese style with the ripping off of a blouse and some breast abuse which I've seen before in Japanese "torture" flicks.By the time the film nears its end, we've been treated to a rape with a screwdriver, and a broken lightbulb in a vagina (out of shot but complete with squishy noises) concluding with some necrophilia by the girl/boy sex change wannabe of someone who was stabbed with the same screwdriver she had elsewhere earlier. Pleasure and pain eh? All of this sounds really shocking but it really wasn't all that, and I'm hoping to watch Red Room 2 in the next few days in the hope it's better. There's far too much of a sexual element in Red Room when I expected more gore in the games. Maybe that's just me though.

They had Kings in Japan? Shouldn't it be called The Emperor Game? Whatever.The King Game. Four people enter a room. Each gets a card. One card has a Crown displayed on it. The other three cards are numbered 1 - 3. Whoever gets the Crown card is obviously the King of this round. The King then chooses up to 2 numbers to play his/her game. The King doesn't know which number belongs to which person, which makes the game even more interesting. The goal then is to make the participants quit the game. You can quit at anytime, but you will leave empty handed and you certainly won't get the grand prize of 10 Million Yen. You accomplish the "challenge", you get to play another round. So whoever is the last person standing, The King, will win the money. And most importantly with this game, anything goes.Red Room is my second movie with this director. The first was Muzan-E, which is considered by many to be one of the most disturbing flicks out there. And I'd agree. This film isn't really on par with Muzan on the disturbing level, but on a sick entertainment level, it's much better. It starts off almost timidly with the "contestants" not really sure how extreme they should go, but eventually the movie hits a great stride and the vomit, urine and blood begin to flow. I also have to add it has a great opening scene, which is very reminiscent to KIDS' opening scene. My only "major" gripe with the film was that a couple scenes of "challenge" would kind of drag a little bit. The chair scene in particular. Though at least that scene ended with a nice laugh. Red Room is easily one of the most entertaining flicks of this nature I've seen in a while. I really dug the whole game idea. The movie made me laugh a good amount, it had nudity, sleaze, blood, and perverse situations. I can't see this movie disappointing too many fans of this type of film. Sure didn't disappoint me. I'm pretty pscyhed that there's a Red Room 2. 8.5 outta 10

I am a relative minor in relations to extreme Japanese cinema viewing. While I am not daft enough to call this "the most disgusting and shocking Jap film ever", Red Room was rather enjoyable for me.First thing I have to say is that this would have been a far less disgusting/shocking film if it weren't for the fantastically repulsive sound. The squelches of "insertion", the sloppy kissing sounds, and the pseudo-porn music were truly graphic, and vulgar to the extreme.Although this is a pretty rough film in parts, with enough pissing, cutting, inserting and the like, some parts were funny, like the only guy continually saying "I'm sorry" (those two words are about 75 % of his lines), and a hilarious secret about one of the characters, which I won't ruin for you here.Other than that, there isn't much to talk about. There's a bit of nudity (the 27 year old chick is hot), the set is nice, and the whole premise of a "last person remaining gets the money" hasn't been over done in horror (yet).All in all, I found this an enjoyable way to spend an hour.

For those of you who have only seen an unsubtitled version, Daisuke Yamanouchi's "Red Room" is an entirely different film once you understand what is being said. The film changes completely from what appears to be a series of disconnected, vile, sadistic acts, to a deep, well thought out psychological horror film that packs a wallop.It's still very strong stuff, but takes on new meaning with subtitles. Very highly recommended for fans of strong horror films, after seeing "Red Room" in its original form I am now seriously looking forward to more of Yamanouchi's work getting an official US release. Once again, Unearthed Films deserves huge credit!