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Creepy
Why this pick
Another unnervingly restrained investigation from Kurosawa, centered on a former detective and a neighbor whose polite surface conceals a steadily deepening menace.
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MOVIE1997 1h 51m JPN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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The Wailing
Why this pick
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The Mothman Prophecies
Why this pick
Like Cure, it treats an incomprehensible phenomenon with sober, investigative gravity, finding terror in repetition, fragments of evidence, and mounting paranoia.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Kenichi Takabe (Kōji Yakusho) is an emotionally repressed police detective with a mentally unstable wife. Takabe investigates a series of bizarre murders in which each victim is killed in the same way, with a large "X" carved into their neck, but the perpetrator is different each time. In every case the murderers are caught close to the scene of the crime, and although they readily confess to committing the crimes, they never have a substantial motive and cannot explain what drove them to kill.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Yukijiro Hotaru
Ichiro Kuwano
Denden
OIda
Ren Osugi
Fujiwara
Masahiro Toda
Tôru Hanaoka
Masato Hagiwara
Kunio Mamiya
Koji Yakusho
Kenichi Takabe