 Marebito
Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto, Shun Sugata, Kazuhiro Nakahara, Tomomi Miyashita
Directed by: Takashi Shimizu
Produced by: Tatsuhiko Hirata
Release Date: December 9, 2005
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence and some nudity.
Studio: Tartan Films
 Domestic: $13,983 (13.0%)
Foreign: $93,276 (87.0%)
Total: $107,259 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: Fear is just below the surface.
Surrealistic vampires haunt Tokyo's subway system. A cameraman intrigued by the circumstances surrounding a gruesome suicide is drawn onto a journey beneath Tokyo in search of the spirits reportedly haunting the subways. This latest exercise in Japanese horror from the director of "The Grudge" takes its grainy, digital video cues into Lovecraftian territory.
Masuoka is a cameraman possessed by the craving to understand fear--what it is and where it ultimately leads.
He wanders the Tokyo streets, a voyeur, hungrily looking for clues. Obsessing over the haunted expressions of the faces he has captured in his daily filming, in particular a man who committed a grisly suicide on the metro.
He returns to the scene to better comprehend the dead man's reasoning. Following his final gaze leads Masuoka to a door, an entry into a bizarre, cavernous underworld. Here among the ghosts and the subterranean robots called Dero's he finds a beautiful young girl chained to a rock. Saving her from her imprisonment he takes her home. But watching her from his web-cam at work each day he begins to suspect there is something truly inhuman about this girl with sharp teeth and who walks on all fours. When he begins to uncover her horrifying secrets Masuoka realises that he has found the key to gaining the terrible knowledge he so craves...
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