Marebito (2005)

1 rating: 3.0

Art House & International and Horror movie directed by Takashi Shimizu

(Masuoka Shinya Tsukamoto, director of Tetsuo) is a cameraman possessed by the craving to understand fear. In particular, he obsesses over his footage of a grisly suicide in the subway. Returning to the scene to better comprehend the dead man's reasoning, … see full wiki

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Cast: Shun Sugata, Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara, Miho Ninagawa

Director: Takashi Shimizu

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Strange and sensuous

Aug 23, 2006

by GlassIsland
posted in Movie Hype

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'Marebito' is an interesting interesting concept film, original and well-made. A good 90 minutes of entertainment, if you like yours disturbing and gritty.

A documentary filmmaker witnesses a man's fairly horrific suicide and goes searching for the nature of terror in the old tunnels beneath Tokyo. There, along with a strange homeless man and a (possible) ghost, he finds a young girl. She is naked, mute, and chained to a wall. He does what anyone might do in such a situation, right? He frees her, takes her home, and keeps her like a pet. It seems to be working out all right, until he finds that the girl has a strong preference for drinking human blood.

It's a creepy but sometimes sensuous little movie. I liked it mainly because it doesn't try to overplay anything; it sets an effective tone and sticks to it, and never really shows its hand fully. Lots of good mood-setting and a few gory payoff moments as well, an interesting story and good actors. Not bad at all.

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