Marronnier

Story

Synopsis

Marino is your average young Japanese lady. She likes hanging out with her friends, brushing her teeth and doting over her Marronnier doll. The doll, however, has been created by an evil genius that kidnaps women, uses a machine to turn them into wax and sculpts the wax into dolls in the deceased's likeness. But it doesn't end there. The mad doll-maker's assistant, Numai, is even freakier. He stalks Marino, kidnaps her (and her friends), fails to seduce her, gets rebuffed, laughs like a maniac and tries to melt them into wax! But that's before his other doll 'creations' come to life and attack him…

Director

Akira Kobayashi

Writers

Junji Ito, Hideyuki Kobayashi

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Release date

1 January 2004

Ensemble

Cast

• Yuriko Anjho

  Sayoko

• Miyako Cojima

  Sakura

• Mizuki Hikaru

  Girl

• Hime

  Kaori

• Haruna Hoshino

  Yuri Ichijyo

• Miwa Igehara

  Woman in Theater

• Misao Inagaki

  Mitsuba Hidaka

• Takanori Kagami

  Kagami

• Kakyo

  Madoka's Illusion

• Asami Kobayashi

  Woman seeking dress

• 

  Ochazukenori

  Tadao Iwata

• Senri Noguchi

  Man on the escalator