| Marebito | |
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 US DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Takashi Shimizu |
| Produced by | Tatsuhiko Hirata Kenzo Horikoshi Atsuko Ono |
| Written by | Chiaki Konaka |
| Music by | Toshiyuki Takine |
| Cinematography | Tsukasa Tanabe |
| Editing by | Masahiro Ugajin |
| Distributed by | Euro Space |
| Released | October 23, 2004 (Japan) |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| Trailer | |
Marebito (稀人) is a 2004 Japanese horror film based on a Chiaki Konaka novel and directed by Takashi Shimizu.
Plot[]
An obsessive cameraman named Masuoka becomes infatuated with understanding fear. He wanders the streets of Tokyo videotaping people until one day he captures footage of a man on the subway who commits a sudden and grisly suicide. Masuoka can't seem to shake the image of the man's face before he died, and keeps re-watching the tape in an attempt to understand what the man was feeling in that moment. As Masuoka teeters on the edge of sanity he finds a young girl deep in a hidden section of the subway. She can't talk and after a few days he discovers she can only survive by drinking human blood. He keeps her locked up in his apartment and occasionally helps her feed by murdering innocent people. However, by the end of the film it becomes difficult to tell which events are actually happening and which are just in his head.
Cast[]
- Shinya Tsukamoto ... Masuoka
- Tomomi Miyashita ... F
- Kazuhiro Nakahara ... Arei Furoki
- Miho Ninagawa ... Aya Fukumoto
- Shun Sugata ... MIB
External links[]
- Marebito review at KFCC
- Marebito review at Midnight Eye
- Marebito review at Snowblood Apple