A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman (Shinya Tsukamoto) investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
Director:
Takashi Shimizu
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| Shin'ya Tsukamoto | ... | Masuoka | |
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Tomomi Miyashita | ... | F |
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Kazuhiro Nakahara | ... | Arei Furoki |
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Miho Ninagawa | ... | Aya Fukumoto |
| Shun Sugata | ... | MIB | |
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| Junko Amagi | |||
| Masayoshi Haneda | |||
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Ayumu Saitô | ||
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In Tokyo, the freelance cameraman Takuyoshi Masuoka is obsessed investigating the fear sensation near death. When he photographs a man stabbing himself in the eye in the access to the subway, he seeks what the suicidal man might have seen to experiment the same sense of horror the man felt when he died. He finds a passage to the Tokyo underground where he meets a mysterious naked woman that does not speak, who he calls her F. He brings F to his place and he tries to feed her, until he discovers that she drinks blood. Masuika becomes a serial killer draining the blood of his victims to nurse F. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Rated R for strong bloody violence and some nudity | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
JapanLanguage:
JapaneseRelease Date:
2005 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Budget:
JPY5,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$3,852, 11 December 2005Gross USA:
$13,983Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$107,259Company Credits
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Takashi Shimizu shot the film in just eight days, between the production dates for Ju-on: The Grudge (2002) and its remake, The Grudge (2004). See more »Quotes
Masuoka: They didn't see something that terrified them. They saw something because they were terrified.See more »
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This is a marvelous movie.
More than a psychological abyss than a straight horror, this little dagger stabs deeper than most of the pretentious psycho thrillers will ever.
Although this masterpiece is not for everyone. It offers a bunch of pretty disturbing scenes, but one has to watch it at least twice, in order to fully comprehend it's twisted metaphoric.
If you find this movie weird, just stop and think about how weirder is the whole mankind. Instead. Horrible thurths are revealed through this genius metaphor of vampyrism.
Cult director Shinya Tsukamoto (whom I'm a devotee) gives the hell out of a performance. This guy is either crazy, either true genius, either both. I'I'm so very impressed.
And a la fin, a quote from marebito: "Horror, is actually an ancient wisdom that we find deep in the memory of our souls....."