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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 violence.Product Identifiers
EAN5023965366122
eBay Product ID (ePID)59527252
Product Key Features
ActorTomomi Miyashita, Shinya Tsukamoto
Film/TV TitleMarebito
DirectorTakashi Shimizu
LanguageJapanese
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time92 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.78 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2006
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, Interview with Takashi Shimizu\Interview with Shinya Tsukamoto\Interview with Hiroshi Takahashi\Original Theatrical Trailer\Film Notes, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureJapan
ScreenwriterChiaki Konaka
Format DescriptionDVD 9
Sound sourceDolby Digital Stereo 2.0\Dolby Digital Surround 5.1\DTS Digital 5.1 Surround