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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Kurosawa’s earlier procedural builds dread from mundane spaces, elusive motives, and an investigator’s growing destabilization. Its spare pacing and unnervingly ordinary encounters closely match Creepy’s domestic unease.
02
Why this pick
A missing-person investigation turns increasingly hostile and morally disorienting. Like Creepy, it uses fractured clues and disturbing social surfaces, though with a much more aggressive, stylized visual energy.
03
Why this pick
This Japanese psychological horror finds menace next door and makes familiar residential spaces feel unsafe. Its focus on unstable identity and escalating neighborhood dread suits Creepy’s intimate threat.
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Why this pick
An ordinary encounter becomes a precise, deeply unsettling study of obsession and concealed predation. Its calm surface and methodical escalation create the same lingering, intimate discomfort as Creepy.
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Why this pick
A detective’s investigation into a harrowing crime is handled with bleak restraint and procedural focus. Its oppressive atmosphere and slow approach to unbearable implications echo Creepy’s investigative dread.
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01 / THE STORY
Having resigned as a profiler following an injury, Koichi Takakura and his wife Yasuko move to a place closer to his new job as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. In an effort to be friendly, Yasuko introduces herself to their two neighbors. One of them is Mrs. Tanaka and her bed-ridden mother, who coldly reject any kind of friendship with the Takakuras. Yasuko rings the doorbell at the house of their other neighbor, who lives in-between the Takakuras and Tanakas, but there is no answer. When Yasuko goes again to leave a bag of chocolates at the middle neighbor's gate, he appears and identifies himself as Mr. Masayuki Nishino. Their initial encounter gives Yasuko a creepy impression of Nishino, as he acts strangely whenever he's around her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
高倉幸一
高倉康子
本多早紀
野上刑事
西野雅之
西野澪
大川
松岡
