Actors: Masato Hagiwara, Miki Nakatani, Ken Mitsuishi
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Chaos
CHAOS (Kaosu) is a film directed by Hideo Nakata (Ring) in 1999.
Saori, Komiyama's wife, disappears after lunch with her husband. Kuroda, the kidnapper, asks Komiyama to deliver the ransom but doesn't show up at the rendezvous. The whole thing seems to have been organized by Saori who, with the help of Kuroda, a handyman, wanted to test her husband's love.
When Kuroda comes back to the hideout, he finds Saori strangled to death. A third party calls him and asks him to bury the young woman if he doesn't want the police after him. After Saori's burying, Kuroda thought he saw her again in the street. The young man starts his own investigation and goes straight to the company which rented the apartment where he and Saori stayed during the kidnapping. Now the whole thing seems to have been organized by Komiyama and his mistress, a young model who look like Saori.
A few days before, Komiyama had killed Saori who had discovered his liaison with the model. Both lovers fabricated this fake kidnapping in order to justify Saori's death. The whole thing seems now very simple but it isn't at all. In fact, it's just the beginning.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Chaos
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- inconveniently married while playing footsy
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Blackmail & Seduction?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
Forest?
Yes
City?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- licking
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Japanese
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- None
