Homunculus

(2021)

★ 6 IMDb · 123 votes

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, Horror

Year: 2021

Runtime: 119 мин

Country: Japan

Director: Такаси Симидзу

Cast: 綾野剛, Рё Нарита, 岸井ゆきの, 石井杏奈, 内野聖陽, Юмико Накамура

Plot

A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.

Susumu Nokoshi once worked for a top foreign financial company. He is now a 34-year-old homeless man, usually found around a park in Shinjuku. He then meets medical school student Manabu Ito, who is looking for volunteers to undergo a surgical procedure known as trepanation. The surgery involves drilling a hole in the skull. Susumu is not interested in having the surgery, but he agrees to have the procedure for 700,000 yen. After the operation, when Susumu closes his right eye and sees someone with his left eye, he sees people having a distorted appearance. Manabu tells him that the distorted appearance is a form of visualization from deep within the mind. Susumu communicates with people, who possess a dark side in their subconscious mind.