Marebito
A cameraman (Shin'ya Tsukamoto) who is obsessed with fear brings a blood-drinking woman (Tomomi Miyashita) back from a nether world of Tokyo. He then becomes a serial killer draining the blood of his victims to nurse the woman.
17 February 1955, Yamanashi, Japan
30 April 1982, Hokkaido, Japan
September 23, 1965 in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
6 November 1964, Saitama, Japan
1 January 1960, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
14 January 1979, Yokohama, Japan
January 27, 2013
An almost stunningly incompetent piece of work...July 12, 2008
It is far from a completely successful experiment, but it does create something with a unique enough identity to be worth exploring.December 30, 2005
Marebito is a disturbing supernatural drama that leaves a sour taste in the mouth.February 20, 2007
It drops names such as Madame Blavatsky for gravitas, but has as little to do with theosophy as a Westerner has to do with chopsticks.December 09, 2005
And if the trip doesn't have the clear-cut directions of a Hollywood film, it has all the ideas -- and cold, unsettling flights of fantasy -- of a nightmare, where faceless people look and look and look, but never see.February 03, 2006
It's actually a pretty lousy thriller.December 09, 2005
For Japanese horror aficionados only, and even they are likely to be underwhelmed by this stew of half-baked ideas and creepy sensations.December 09, 2005
Marebito is no conventional vampire movie but a speculation into the notion that ancient people could sense alien beings in their midst.April 23, 2009
It neither musters the campy horror of Ju-on nor follows through on its art-house potential.March 16, 2006
[An] atmospheric, hypnotic digital video wonder.February 03, 2006
The gloppy sound effects are so over-the-top, they invite laughter, and the bloodsucking scenes are allowed to become absurdly repetitious.May 22, 2007
As creepy as it is frustrating.