Uzumaki (, Uzumaki, Vortex, "Spiral") is a Japanese horror movie directed by Higuchinsky. Uzumaki, released in 2000, is based on Junji Ito's episodic manga of the same name.

The plot concerns a town infected with malevolent spirals. This abstract concept manifests in grotesque ways, such as a teenager's long hair beginning to curl and take over her mind, or a corpse wound around itself.

Among many bizarre features of the film is a heavy treatment with green colour filters, aping the style of the colour plates in the manga, and the fact that the trailer for the film is a pastiche of Jean-Luc Godard's seminal trailer for À bout de souffle (1960).

The movie covers some of the notable stories from the manga, with varying degrees of faithfulness. The movie and the manga have different endings due to the movie being filmed before the manga had finished.

High school student Kirie's first glimpse that something is awry in the small town of Kurouzu comes when the father of her nerdy best friend (Shuichi) begins to film the corkscrew patterns on a snail, he is also in the process of making a video scrap book filled with the images of anything that has a spiral or vortex shape to it. His weird obsession begins to threaten to spin dangerously out of control. He proclaims that a vortex is the highest form of art and frantically creates whirlpools in his miso soup when he runs out of naruto roll. He then becomes one with Uzumaki when he decides to crawl into a washing machine to get a 'point-of-view' shot for his film.

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