Japanese School Horror Hana-Dama: The Origin Coming to Blu-ray in January

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After premiering at last year’s Fantasia Film Festival, the J-horror Hana-Dama: The Origin will finally be getting a US Blu-ray release on January 19, 2016. Head over to Amazon to pre-order a copy.

The film’s biggest selling point is that it comes from acclaimed horror director Hisayasu Satō, known for his work in exploitative Japanese cinema. He has no fewer than 58 directing credits to his name and is often referred to as the Japanese David Cronenberg because of his emphasis on body horror.

Hana-Dama: The Origin features that fantasy that we all has as teenagers, where we wished that we could extract vengeance on our bullies. Come on, admit it; you all had that fantasy. So it should be fun to watch young Mizuki play it out.

Synopsis:
From the wild imagination of director Sato Hisayasu (Splatter: Naked Blood), one of a group of directors known as the Four Devils (who made their mark in the softcore pink film genre in the late 1980 s), comes a twisted tale of revenge via plant life in the terrifying Hana-Dama: The Origin.

Bullied Japanese high school student Mizuki (Sakuragi Rina, Girl’s Blood) has the ultimate revenge on her teenage tormentors in this horror-fest tinged with dark humor. Possessed by a powerful spirit, Mizuki sprouts a mysterious flower from her head which empowers her with deadly skills to exact revenge, with bloody consequences, against the bullying classmates led by mean girl Aya (Nakamura Eriko, August in Tokyo). Hana-Dama: The Origin features supporting performances by Shimamura Maika, Fujiwara Kei, and Asada Shun.

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