St. John's Wort
Directed by Ten Shimoyama
An art designer for a videogame is forced to confront her childhood traumas when colleagues ask her to gather visual materials from an old mansion she inherited from her estranged father.
A designer confronts childhood trauma in an old, inherited mansion.
Cast: Yui Natsukawa, Michitaka Tsutsui, Chiaki Kuriyama
Member Reviews
2½💀 Well it had some creepy moments, "St. John's Wort" is otherwise a waste of time. I kept getting bored and wanting to fast-forward.
Boring, poorly filmed and lit. Pass…
It's aight. Visually very cool, but the godawful pacing really drags it down.
I remember watching this movie many, many years ago. I didn't care for it much back then but upon this re-watching, I didn't think it was too bad. Definitely not the strongest story but trying to weave in the video game development angle was interesting. A 3. 75 skulls.
Slow and spare, but does evoke the experience of video games and visual novels