(Gusya no Binzume / Gusher No Binds Me)
2003 / 2026 / Full HD / 96 min / Color /
Producer: NISHIMURA Hideo / Director and Screen Play: YAMAGUCHI Hiroki /
Director of Photography: YASUDA Hikaru / Art Director: MIYASHITA Tadaya /
Sound: TAKIZAWA Osamu / Editor: YAMANAKA Takao
Cast: KIRINO Yuki / TSUJIOKA Masato / SAISHO Ikuma
© 2003 Wevco Produce Company / Eisei Gekijyo / The Indies / Same Two
INTRODUCTION
A visionary nightmare captured on screen by Hiroki Yamaguchi, the radical reformer of Japanese film.
At just 19 years old, Hiroki Yamaguchi shook the industry by winning the Grand Prix at the 2nd Indies Movie Festival with his visceral work Shinya Zoki (Midnight Viscera). Immediately hailed as a talent destined to surpass even Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Azumi), Yamaguchi embarked on his first feature-length theatrical project at the age of 22. Hellevator is the result of a grueling, five-month "creative siege." Built with a volunteer student crew and a set constructed entirely from industrial scrap in a Tokyo underground basement, the film’s production was as extreme as its plot. On a diet of rice balls and barely an hour of sleep, the cast and crew pushed themselves to the brink to realize Yamaguchi’s uncompromising, multi-genre vision.
Story
GUSHER NO BINDS ME, or — The Bottle of Fools —
A transport elevator in a dystopian tower becomes a psychological pressure cooker.
When a telepathic girl, six citizens, and two dangerous convicts are trapped together, their hidden sins are violently exposed. In this steel tomb, reality dissolves—transforming a simple ascent into a "Bottle of Fools": a gruesome theater of madness.