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JAWS IN JAPAN (2009) BOMB (out of 4)Miki and Mai are on vacation when they go back to the home of a strange man when even stranger things begin to happen.JAWS IN JAPAN also goes by the title PSYCHO SHARK but no matter what you call it the film is a complete dud that lacks anything good. Well, let me take that back. Both Nonami Takizawa and Airi Nakajima do a good job in their roles as the annoying girl but everything else is pretty awful from start to finish.The biggest problem is that nothing here makes too much sense. At times there's weird video footage of the friends, which makes you wonder if it's going for THE RING type of rip-off. There's a shower scene, which I'm guessing is meant towards PSYCHO. Then there's the god-awful looking shark that finally shows up. None of it makes any sense and even worse is the fact that this lasts just 69-minutes.Be on the look out for the shower sequences where it appears the actresses didn't want to be nude so they re-enact the shower motions with their bathing suits on.

This movie begins with three young, Japanese women frolicking in their bikinis on a beach in Okinawa and recording everything on a video recorder. One month later two other Japanese women travel to the same beach and they are also given a free video recorder while they are staying at the same small hotel. Anyway, as the story evolves, one of the young ladies by the name of "Mai" (Ari Nakajima) develops a crush on one of the local men which leaves her companion, "Miki" (Nonami Takizawa) all by herself while she strolls on the beach with her new boyfriend. As luck would have it, Miki discovers a video tape of the three ladies mentioned earlier and while watching it she begins to see certain things not meant for public viewing. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film had a number of flaws which really affected the overall quality of the movie. To be more specific, the acting, camera work, dialogue, special effects and just about everything else was quite bad. As a matter of fact, about the only good thing going for this movie was the presence of the five young ladies mentioned earlier who were all quite cute. But even so, none of them could have possibly saved this film from the major flaws listed previously

Wow…what a dud.A word of advice to filmmakers…if you have a movie that features many well endowed bikini clad Japanese girls and a script with a bizarre shark cult and a real big shark…show the shark for more than five seconds and show some freaking t&a! What a colossal bore overall. By reusing the same found footage over and over, you may have helped the running time, but not the viewers enjoyment. The viewer will be hard pressed not to use the fast forward button to get to the "action" scenes or scenes that they think may carry some weight or gravity to further the razor thin storyline.All that being said, the Free Willy moment at the end was a laugh inducer.

You know how irritating it is, when watching a horror movie, you have to wait an awful long time before something significant or even remotely horrific happens? Tension building is a good thing, but depending on the type of movie you rented, you sometimes just want to see blood and carnage, like it's illustrated on the DVD cover and the stills on the back of the box. Well, "Psycho Shark" brings this sentiment of annoyance to a whole brand new dimension… Please, if you're not familiar with this title, I invite you to perform a search via Google Images and have a good look at the poster image. You will most likely encounter a poster of a shark emerging with wide open jaws, ready to swallow a victim in bikini, as well as stills from a ridiculous over-sized shark practically eating an entire wharf. Looks pretty cool, doesn't it? The painful truth, however, is that all these images are a bunch of shenanigans. "Psycho Shark", or "Jaws in Japan" as it is also known, isn't about raging sharks at all. More than an hour of this already relatively short movie centers on two beautiful and (very) young girls on vacation. The girls have fun and film each other in their too tight bikinis while a sinister young man observes them from a distance. For you see, the shark in the title is probably symbolic as we're dealing with a pervert with a little plastic shark on his key ring. Lame! Until suddenly and completely out of the blue, two minutes before the ending, the worst computer engineered fake shark in the history of bad horror cinema emerges from the water. The few courageous viewers who managed to last this long will be amazed at how awful the digital shark looks. I bet director John Hijiri has a profound explanation about the psychological depth and metaphors hidden in his film, but quite frankly I don't think anyone cares. When people rent a film with a bloodthirsty shark on the cover, they want to see just that!