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There’s a moment in director Yuki Soma’s forgotten 1987 VHS oddity, The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic , that makes even the most jaded gorehounds wince. Not because of the violence — though there’s plenty — but because of the quiet .

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Instead, Soma gives us this: Kenji works as a “cleaner” for the Yakuza. There’s a moment in director Yuki Soma’s forgotten

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Then comes the basement.

The film’s infamous 12-minute middle sequence, shot on grainy 16mm with a single flickering fluorescent light, reveals what Kenji does in his off-hours. He kidnaps rival gang members. He doesn’t torture them for information. He tortures them to practice .

I say: watch this alone. Late. And lock your doors.