Dr. Yuji Kotorida is a well-respected plastic surgeon, but beneath the surface the good doctor's a serial killer with a taste for human flesh. He keeps a diary online in which he describes his experience with eating dead young women, but one day a detective discovers his secret. Will this be the end for our cannibal friend?
While pretty much all cannibal flicks are gruesome and raw, and makes one think of cannibalism as something vile and totally insane, The Last Supper is pretty much the complete opposite and never before has human meat looked so good! I'm repulsed kinda easily and I usually avoid eating while watching a gory flick, but this film actually got me hungry.. and curious. Ok, that sounded completely demented but if you watch it I'm sure you'll see what I mean as this film has a great feel to it and furthermore, as far as I can see it's pro cannibalism. Shot on video, the film may look a bit cheap but once I got into the story I forgot all about looks because it played out so well. Some of the gory scenes, head comes off, dead bodies piled up and such may look a bit too cheap at times and take some of the good feel away, but overall it's a little thing in comparison to what the film has to offer as a whole.
The Last Supper starts off with a bang; we're introduced to Dr. Yuji Kotorida who has a good-looking girl over at his place and everything plays out like a romantic date except for that Kotorida chops her head right off instead of calling it a night like a normal person would. Well I was hooked right then and there and it only got better. We soon learn that Yuji Kotorida is a well-repected plastic surgeon and has skills and a touch like no one else. This guy is actually so darn good that one of the nurses refers to him as a God. Later on a tv-team is visiting Kotorida to do a story on him where he cooks for the female reporter and she just loves it (not knowing what she's eating of course). Later on he takes her out to dinner and after that she's nowhere to be found, and the same happens with a bunch of other girls.
 
The doctor is making a big mistake though keeping a diary on the net where he describes how great it feels to eat human flesh. Eventually a nosy detective discovers the diary and starts coming down on Kotorida. What happens next is something really cool that I won't spoil for you here, all I can say is that despite its low production value, The Last Supper is worth watching. Acting-wise it's totally all right, considering that this is a movie made from a low budget, you of course do not get the most talented actors/actresses around but it is ok for what it is and is never bad or anything close to it. Being a Japanese film and all, it's not as slow as some of these J-Horrors tend to be, and even though I wouldn't go as far as saying that it's a fast-paced flick, at least it moves forward at all times without ever slowing down too much.
Best thing about this movie though is the way it portrays cannibalism and it does it in a way that is not scary or repulsive, but instead in a way that is very intriguing. Fun thing is that it brings those myths of eating human flesh to life where one who eats it also feels better as a person and looks better to the outside world. The doctor is a handsome man who once used to look not even half as good, and most of it due to that he got into flesh-eating. But the way things are portrayed, how cannibalism is portrayed is never over-the-top, but instead it makes it both look good and seems like an all right thing to practise.
I would like to recommend The Last Supper for its different take on portraying cannibalism and for that the story alone is simple, yet very intriguing. It may look a bit too cheap at times, but it's not the outside that really matters right.
Note: The Last Supper DVD comes with as version with English subtitles as well as a dubbed version for all you folks who are just too darn lazy to read.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Saigo no bansan
MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Osamu Fukutani
WRITING CREDITS: Kei Oishi, Osamu Fukutani
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Masaya Kato, Hiroki Matsukata, Fumina Hara
COUNTRY: Japan
RUNTIME: 92 min
RATING: 7/10
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