Shinya Tsukamoto, best known to American audiences for writing and directing the underground classic Tetsuo the Iron Man, plays a nihilistic freelance videographer who accidentally captures a suicide on camera. Watching the footage repeatedly, he becomes obsessed with the terrified expression worn by the victim in the moment of death; this triggers a visionary experience, which then, depending on your interpretation, either sets off a series of elaborate hallucinations, or leads the protagonist on a dreamlike journey into an underground world.

(Source: Tartan Video)