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Homunculus
JAPAN · 2021

Homunculus

Takashi Shimizu
trepanation subconscious mind body horror psychological manipulation social desperation
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Synopsis

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.

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