1.The acting is very bad... especially the "American". 2.The Camera work .. the shots are boring and cheap. 3.The Story is like it's from a cheap Horror comic book. 4.Theres nothing to think about or to remember.All in all many reviewers talk about art. You wont find any. Its really like a cheap Horror flick but more sickness in it without any sense.It is totally overrated. There is no suspense.A cheap Story played by bad Actors. I really don't understand what people are seeing in this Film. Art? stop kidding. Only because you can see some traditional Japanese costumes in it doesn't turn it into art.To call this Art is an insult. All you can get out of it is to be sickened.NO THRILL.NO SUSPENSE.BAD STORYLINE.BAD ACTING.BORING Camera-work.NO DEEPTH.So if to get sickened is all you need from a Movie? go on watch it.Don't believe this talk about art you will be very disappointed.

This episode of the "Masters of Horror" series is quite nice.The story is good and compelling, and you will never feel bored at any point. The entire story have an underlying tone of dread and suspense to it, which works so well.There is some really gruesome torture scenes in this episode, which may not be suitable for all people, but as a fan of horror and Asian horror, I found this to be great. Very detailed, very disturbing and very believable.However, not all about this episode was great. Billy Drago's acting was laughable. This guy was really wrongly chosen for that part, and his performance drags the value down a notch. I didn't believe his heart and soul was in the acting in this particular episode of the "Masters of Horror" series. However, I looked beyond his lack of skill and enjoyed "Imprint" in all its gory glory.The settings and the scenery of "Imprint" were amazing. Very well constructed and very gloomy.How this episode could be banned is beyond my comprehension. It is not that much of a deviant from many other episodes. Perhaps the torture was too much for TV? I highly recommend "Imprint" if you like scenes that make you curl your toes in sympathetic pain. Trust me, the scenes here are wicked!

Miike likes to push the borders of censorship as far as they will go because he wants you to feel however you naturally, instinctively feel about the horrors he presents with such reckless diffidence. He may merely seem perversely fun for the simple art of shock value, but I'm starting to think he has a meticulous agenda to his body of work.Could it perhaps be a good thing to watch brutality as disturbing and numbing as this? I will not go into any detail at all about what is in store for those who dare to watch, because what Miike loves to do and unabashedly does here is unfold the first half hour without even the faintest omen of what is to come in the remaining duration. However, I will say that the last Miike film I saw was Visitor Q. I believed that to be the most twisted and warped film I might've ever seen. Before that, I saw Izo, a spectacular though underrated effort, which I believed to possibly be the most violent film I had seen up to that point. After watching this, I feel I have entered a portal through which everything pleasant seems so much more magnified in its loveliness.Imprint makes no narrative sense, really, once it gets going. Generally, it is about a man coming to an island where horror seems to be the mainstay, unlike most normal societies, except maybe Tennessee. Billy Drago, who plays the American visitor, gives one of the very worst performances I've ever seen, not because he doesn't attempt a good one but because Miike seems to have deliberately directed him to go for a terrible one. But to me, this is all what Miike intends. He does not strive to be an "artist," but he does strive to make an impression upon his audience. What do you feel for the few hours after watching a Miike movie? Say you were to watch Bambi or Dumbo next. With what fervor would you find yourself experiencing those films owing to this as the preceding one? A lot. A whole hell of a lot.

In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the American journalist Christopher (Billy Drago) is traveling through the country searching Komomo (Michie), the missing love of his life that he had abandoned years ago promising to come back to her later. He arrives in a shadowy island inhabited by whores and caftans, where he has an encounter with a deformed prostitute that tells that his beloved Komomo had passed away. He drinks sake with her and later he asks the woman to tell the story of her life. The prostitute discloses a dark and cruel story about her life and the sad fate of Komomo.The macabre "Imprint" is another disturbing and brutal movie of Takashi Miike. Using magnificent camera-work and impressive make-up in an awesome atmosphere, "Imprint" approaches gruesome and gore theme like abortion, fetus, incest, torture, perversions and abuse along 63 minutes running time of pure and sick horror with many twists. I confess that I felt uncomfortable and disturbed with the sadistic sequence of the torture of Komomo. Takashi Miike really honors the title of this series, being a Master of Horror. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Marcas do Terror" ("Marks of the Terror")