Japan Synopsis
パラサイト・イヴ
“It's not a virus… it's evolution.”
Toshiaki Nagashima is a biologist who is doing major research on mitochondria. When his beautiful young wife is tragically involved in a car accident which leaves her brain dead, in desperation he steals her liver from her body in order to recieve the mitochondria from it to resurrect his wife from the dead. The killer mitochondria takes the form of his assistant.
The 1996–1998 Japan Window
144 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Parasite Eve sits at position #128.
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The 1990s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 1990s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Parasite Eve premiered. 447 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #4,107 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (10th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -1.2 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Romance productions specifically: #353 of 406 (top 87%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Robot Communications, Fuji Television Network, Kadokawa Shoten |
| Runtime | 2h 0m |
| Release Date | February 1, 1997 |
| IMDb | tt0119860 |