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Occult
Why this pick
Like Marebito, it turns a documentarian’s obsessive pursuit into escalating urban dread, using rough pseudo-documentary texture and unnerving ambiguity rather than conventional scares.
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MOVIE2004 1h 32m JPN
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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A Record of Sweet Murderer
Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kazuhiro Nakahara
Arei Furoki
Miho Ninagawa
Aya Fukumoto