It’s the hottest part of the summer, the time when your skin burns when you go outside. When the cicadas song is at its loudest, a tune carried by the boxes of the Cicada Man (Shinya Hankawa), a strange man who wanders the streets and remains a mystery to all.

He’s walked into an even odder place, the mind, dreams and body of this film’s heroine (Kaori Hoshino), who every evening has nightmares of the Cicada Man filling her body with his horrible insects. When she awakens, her body is strewn with rashes, but her doctor claims that that’s just a side effect of her new sleeping pills.

How do you get bugs out of your body? You cut them out, that’s how.

Directed by Guy, this movie starts as a nice little tale of a girl in a coffee shop, has the bug man invade matters and by the end, you’re being blasted by Microchip Terror’s music and assaulted by the effects of Susumu Nakatani, who worked on Versus. Never change, Japanese cinema, never stop making me look out to see bug faced men and women with gaping sores filled with their eggs.

This Unearthed Films blu ray has a behind the scenes clip, a talkshow with the creators, a video from the Japanese premiere and trailers. You can get it from MVD.