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2004 Certificate 18
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Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) 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, he opens a doorway into a bizarre, cavernous underworld. Here among the ghosts and .. Read more

Starring Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita
Director Takashi Shimizu
Genres Horror, World Cinema

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Marebito

Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) 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, he opens a doorway into a bizarre, cavernous underworld. Here among the ghosts and subterranean creatures he finds a beautiful, mute girl whom he takes home. As days pass he begins to suspect there is something truly inhuman about this girl. When he begins to uncover her horrifying secrets.

Starring Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita
Director Takashi Shimizu
Studio PALISADES TARTAN
Run time DVD: 1 hr 32 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Horror, World Cinema
Language DVD: Japanese
Subtitles DVD: English
Released DVD: 25 Sep 2006
Production year: 2004
Format DVD

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  • 9 out of 11 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Atmospheric Horror

    From the director of the Grudge this film successfully marries the atmospheric uncertainties of traditional Japanese horror movies with the mythic narratives of British & European gothic horror.

    The moments of gore are disturbing and memorable but the real driving force of this film is the contrast between our protagonit, Masuoka's, fragile grip on reality and the cinema verite film techniques used throughout. We watch 'reality' through the intersession of security video and hand held film camera, spiral towards the nightmares and myths contained within the thoughts of Masuoka, played by the director of Tetsuo Iron Man - Shinya Tsukamoto, as revealed through his voice overs. Masuoka is a filmmaker obsessed with capturing the essence of fear, his journey recalls the classic questions about the nature of reality and redemption found in Plato, Dante, Radcliffe, Le Fanu, Donne etc yet seemlessly intertwined with the mesmeric reflexions on the relationship between media & violence.

    A thoutful and intelligent film which asks some very deep questions whilst retaining all the shock, gore and atmosphere required of Japanese horror.

      • gothicHM from Herts
      • Posted 26 Sep 2006 14:18

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    It smells

    Honestly, this film was horrendous. What sort of person voluntary goes to hell and picks up a person and takes them back to earth and expects everything to be hunky dory.

    Hammy acting, a story as solid as crackers glued together with pritt stick.

    Supremely daft and utterly boring. You've been warned.

      • A customer from London
      • Posted 04 Sep 2008 01:50

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      • Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) 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 ...