Crazy Lips

The story is not that crazy. A boy has disappeared following the murder of four women, his sisters set out to clear his name with the aid of a psychic.

However when the psychic has her own motives and operations and the FBI get involved in a Japanese case, it’s not long before it all starts to take a life of its own.

You get the feeling that director Hirohisa Saski and writer Hiroshi Takahashi sort of give up on making any sense and just chucked everything in with no filters.

Hence the appearance of the FBI, one speaking fluent Japanese and the other spitting out English profanities.
The family has been hounded since the son’s disappearance with the media seemingly permanently encamped outside the house. The family can see all this on their black and white TV. As well as the media there’s a grubby cop who is on their case.

The family are convinced that their son and brother is innocent and decide to consult a psychic. She senses something and the hold a séance where she asks the ghosts of the murdered where their heads are (they were never found). However sister Satumi is also sensitive to the ghosts and sees them too. This doesn’t go unnoticed by the psychic.

From here it ranges from borderline obscene when the psychic’s assistant makes advances on the mother, and another that borders on porn, to the arrival of the FBI investigating the psychic’s scam. There’s also more than a nod to the world of Giallo

The comedy is broad to say the least and the film, even allowing for its twenty-six years, indulges in some of terrible misogyny. All told this is an unpleasant curiosity that has a direct sequel.

Crazy Lips had its UK Premiere at Tubi FrightFest London, August 2026.