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Release Date
• USA: May 22, 2004
• UK: 6 Oct 2004
Budget JPY 5,000,000
Official Website:
Marebito Website
Running Time
1 hour, 32 minutes
Country Japan
Production Companies
Adness K.K., AtEntertainment K.K., Culture Publishers Inc. (CP), Euro Space, Japan CableCast K.K., Panorama Communications K.K.
Studio Tartan Films
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• Marebito (2004)
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Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Drama, Horror
Plot: Japanese director Takashi Shimizu (JU-ON) presents another slice of atmospheric J-horror with his gory frightfest MAREBITO. In an inspired bit of casting, real-life director Shinya Tsukamoto (TETSUO: THE IRON MAN) stars as Masuoka, a filmmaker obsessed with capturing the essence of fear via his ever-present digital-video camera. When Masuoka accidentally films a grisly suicide in the Tokyo subway, he begins to explore the system's subterranean depths and finds a ghostly pale, mute girl (Tomomi Miyashita) chained naked to a rock. Bringing her back to his apartment, Masuoka soon learns that his new companion drinks only blood, which he compliantly feeds her--in increasingly disturbing ways. Shot on a tight schedule over an eight-day break between JU-ON and its American remake, THE GRUDGE, MAREBITO makes effective use of its claustrophobic, underworld locales and grainy, hand-held cinematography for a ghoulishly queasy and self-reflexive treatise on the nexus between art and reality, and media and
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Marebito is an adventure into terror that dwells on your deepest fears. [It] is easily one of the most eerie, twisted, unsettling and original horror movies in recent history.  -- (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
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Chiaki Konaka
Armitage III: Poly Matrix, Kyoufu gekijo: Desu meiku, Umezu Kazuo: Kyôfu gekijô- Madara no shôjo |
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