outage in her apartment disables the refrigeration systems, gradually thawing the bodies and leaving them to rot in the summer heat. Driven delirious by a fever, Chihiro decides to flee to Europe when she is suddenly visited by Nogami, who has missed her. After spending a night together, Nogami notices the smell of decay and finds the bodies in the freezers. Chihiro instinctively kills him as well, but after coming to her senses, and with her life now thoroughly in shambles, she commits suicide, throwing herself off her balcony. Cast Harumi Inoue as Chihiro Yamazaki Kazuki Kitamura as Noboru Hirokawa, Chihiro's former childhood friend and one of the rapists Naoto Takenaka as Minoru Baba, a yakuza and one of the rapists Shingo Tsurumi as Atsushi Kojima, a yakuza and one of the rapists Shunsuke Matsuoka as Yûsuke Nogami, Chihiro's colleague and boyfriend Release Freeze Me was distributed by Nikkatsu on May 27, 2000. Reception The Japan Times described Freeze Me declared that there was "nothing childish about Ishii's vision of evil" and that "Ishii sees more clearly than many of his directorial colleagues, with their winking indulgence of the male id and ego, how that evil, in the absence of any countervailing force, has penetrated to the heart of Japanese society. Chihiro's solution is still extreme, but her worst fears have become all too common." References Sources Alexander, James R. "The Maturity of a Film Genre in an Era of Relaxing Standards of Obscenity: Takashi Ishii's Freezer as a Rape-Revenge Film" Accessed October 6, 2007 External links Freeze Me'' at the Japanese Movie Database 2000 films 2000 psychological thriller films Japanese psychological thriller films Films directed by Takashi Ishii 2000s Japanese-language films 2000s erotic thriller films Rape and revenge films Japanese erotic thriller films 2000s Japanese films