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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 nightmare similarly turns a detective investigation into an unnervingly spare, psychologically destabilizing descent, using Tokyo’s ordinary spaces and patient silences to sustain dread.
02
Why this pick
Another Kurosawa investigation shaped by unease rather than action: a former detective follows small inconsistencies into a suburban world that feels increasingly poisoned and unknowable.
03
Why this pick
Its cool, methodical mystery shares Retribution’s fixation on a missing piece of truth and the terrible pull of pursuing an explanation long after ordinary certainty has collapsed.
04
Why this pick
This restrained Japanese investigation keeps revising what its central crime means, favoring ambiguous testimony, moral unease, and the slow erosion of confidence over conventional thriller release.
05
Why this pick
A haunting murder investigation where imperfect evidence and institutional failure gradually unsettle the investigators themselves; its tonal shifts never dilute the accumulating sense of dread.
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01 / THE STORY
Yoshioka, an experienced detective, investigates the murder of an unknown woman in a red dress. She was drowned on the Tokyo waterfront, but an autopsy reveals that her stomach is full of seawater. Moreover, all the clues he finds relate to himself: A button found at the murder scene matches one that is missing from his own coat, and fingerprints found match his own. Yoshioka realizes that the only viable suspect is himself; but he doesn't remember a thing.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Harue Nimura
Tôru Miyaji
Wakai Keiji Sakurai
Miyuki Yabe
Kangofu
Shibata Reiko no Hahaoya
Shin'ya Ichikawa (as Ryô Tanaka)
Sakebi no Koe (voice)
