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Marebito

 

Japan 2004, 92 minutes
Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Genres: Horror / Paranorma

Feat. Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara, Miho Ninagawa

 

Aroview: A delve into more conventional 'horror' for dir. Shimizo (THE GRUDGE), still retaining considerable austerity and dread with his fable of urban fears shot on DV in just 8 days.

Tsukamoto plays an obsessive man who scrutinises the cityscape around him for how human fear is generated and spread, taking photographs and eavesdropping for clues. One day, he discovers a nondescript door into an 'underworld' of spirits and robots, freeing a chained naked woman and attempting to heal her back in the normal world. Although the Korean sensibility is intact, the story is a few symbols short of a truly effective allegory.

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