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A man in this film slowly fills up a beaker with water and then proceeds to knock it over as he tells a woman “The inside of me… is empty.” A long take in this film tracks two characters moving along a beach as one repeatedly asks the other where they are. While investigating an apartment, the protagonist of this film finds the shriveled corpse of a monkey strung up onto a (*) showerhead. A shot in this film pushes past the main character to follow a waitress going about her job before she calmly grabs a large knife and the film cuts to the end credits. Near the end of this film, the protagonist discovers a phonograph in a decrepit building from which he hears the voice of a man referenced throughout the film as the originator of Japanese mesmerism. For 10 points, the letter X is found carved (10[1])into the necks of several seemingly unconnected murder victims in what 1997 Kiyoshi Kurosawa film? ■END■

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