Parasyte: Part 1

Parasyte: Part 1
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Directed by	Takashi Yamazaki
Screenplay by	Ryota Kosawa Takashi Yamazaki
Based on	Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki
Starring	Shota Sometani
Music by	Naoki Satō
Cinematography	Shoichi Ato
Edited by	Junnosuke Hogaki
Production company	Robot Toho Pictures Office Abe Shuji
Distributed by	Toho
Release dates	October 30, 2014 (2014-10-30) (TIFF) November 29, 2014 (2014-11-29) (Japan)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥2 billion (Japan)

Parasyte: Part 1 (Japanese: 寄生獣, Hepburn: Kiseijū) is a 2014 Japanese science fiction action horror film directed by Takashi Yamazaki, starring Shota Sometani. It is the first film of the two Parasyte films, and was followed by Parasyte: Part 2.

Plot

One day, suddenly mysterious Aliens enter into human brains through the ear canal, taking complete control of their bodies. one targets Shinichi Izumi's brain, however due to his headphones. he is unable to enter his brain and ends up taking control of his right hand. since it was on his right hand (migi te) he decided to call it Migi, [right in Japanese] Accepting the fact that one would die if another dies, they join forces against other parasites.

Cast

• Shota Sometani as Shinichi Izumi (泉 新一 Izumi Shin'ichi)
• Sadao Abe as Migi (ミギー Migī)
• Eri Fukatsu as Ryoko Tamiya (田宮 良子 Tamiya Ryōko)
• Ai Hashimoto as Satomi Murano (村野 里美 Murano Satomi)
• Masahiro Higashide as Hideo Shimada (島田 秀雄 Shimada Hideo)
• Nao Omori as Kuramori
• Kazuki Kitamura as Tsuyoshi Hirokawa
• Pierre Taki as Miki (三木, lit. Three trees)
• Hirofumi Arai as Uragami
• Jun Kunimura as Lieutenant Hirama
• Kimiko Yo as Nobuko Izumi (泉 信子 Izumi Nobuko)
• Tadanobu Asano as Goto (後藤 Gotō)

Release

Parasyte: Part 1 screened at the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival as the closing film on October 30, 2014.

The film was released on November 29, 2014 in Japan. It topped the box office on its opening weekend, earning $2.9 million from 256,000 admissions on 418 screens.

Reception

Mark Schilling of The Japan Times gave the film 3 and a half stars out of 5, saying, "I couldn't call myself a fan of the manga, but the film adaptation of Parasyte hits the hard-to-find sweet spot between black comedy and serious sci-fi/horror". Peter Debruge of Variety in his favorable review felt that "[the film] marks an entertaining new iteration in the body-horror category, as if someone had grafted a very dark high-school comedy onto a David Cronenberg movie." Meanwhile, Christopher O'Keeffe of Twitch Film in his unfavorable review commented that "Parasyte: Part 1 spends a great deal of time laying the groundwork for the concluding chapter and its charmless aliens and the scarcity of action in early scenes fail to make it stand on its own."

External links

• (Japanese)
• Kiseijû: Part 1 at IMDb