


High school student Kirie Goshima's first glimpse that something is awry in the small town of Kurouzu-cho comes when her boyfriend Shuichi Saito's father begins to film the corkscrew patterns on a snail he is also in the process of making a video scrap book filled with the images of anything that has a spiral or vortex shape to it. Simultaneously, Uzumaki received a limited release in the American city of San Francisco. The film was backed by the company Omega Micott, who released it in Japan on a double bill with Tomie: Replay, another film based on a manga by Ito. As the film was produced while the manga was still being written and released, it departs from the story of the original work and features a different ending. The film takes place in a town plagued by a mysterious curse involving spirals. The feature film directorial debut of Higuchinsky, it stars Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki and Shin Eun-kyung. "Spiral") is a 2000 Japanese horror film based on the manga of the same name by Junji Ito.
