If you loved Assault! Jack the Ripper, try The Embryo Hunts in Secret
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theysit in Crime / Drama / Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to Assault! Jack the Ripper, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What The Embryo Hunts in Secret is
A neon-lit Hokkaidō studio apartment, winter midnight. A single heating coil glows red, the hum of a tape recorder loops screams. He measures her bruises with a straightedge while she counts ceiling tiles backward in English. The razor leaves a thin line; she swallows it whole. Wakamatsu’s pink anthology zeroes in on the banality of cruelty.

