 "Freeze Me" was distributed by Nikkatsu on May 27, 2000.Mark Schilling of "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."