Uzumaki (うずまき, Uzumaki? "Spiral") is a Japanese horror movie directed by Higuchinsky. Uzumaki, released in 2000, is based on Junji Ito's episodic manga of the same name.

The plot concerns a town infected with malevolent spirals. This abstract concept manifests in grotesque ways, such as a teenager's long hair beginning to curl and take over her mind, or a corpse wound around itself.

Among many bizarre features of the film is a heavy treatment with green colour filters, aping the style of the colour plates in the manga, and the fact that the trailer for the film is a pastiche of Jean-Luc Godard's seminal trailer for À bout de souffle (1960).

The movie covers some of the notable stories from the manga, with varying degrees of faithfulness. The movie and the manga have different endings due to the movie being filmed before the manga had finished.

Its theme song was "Raven" by the band Do As Infinity, which was on their "Yesterday & Today" single.

Also in 2000, Higuchinsky adapted Junji's Nagai Yume ("Long Dream") for Japanese television.

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