rdoyle29 Shin'ya Tsukamoto stars as a camera man who witnesses a man's suicide in the subway tunnels and becomes driven to find out what drove him to it. He finds tunnels under the subway station that lead to an ancient city, where he finds a young naked woman chained to a wall. He takes her home with him, but cannot get her to speak or eat. He discovers that her only diet is blood, and soon he's killing women and bringing their blood home for her. Nothing at all is what it seems to be in this film. It was shot in 8 days on digital video between Shimizu's direction of "Ju-On: The Grudge" and it's American remake. I like it ... everything has a sense of terrible foreboding.

james-2929 Yes, perhaps there is some interesting psychological commentary in the movie, but overall it is bizarre, unrewarding, and with no sense of closure. Further, it is not scary in the least. I thought it was supposed to be a horror movie, but it is more like a sterile view of something that could be scary just because of the subject matter, but doesn't come off that way.I had a pretty hard time watching the whole thing just because it was so boring. I was constantly asking myself if the time I was spending rotting my brain with this movie was better used, say, eating a PB&J sandwich...

Claudio Carvalho In Tokyo, the freelancer cameraman Takuyoshi Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) is obsessed investigating the fear sensation near death. When he shots with his camera a man stabbing himself in the eye in the access to the subway, he seeks what the suicidal might have seen to experiment the same sense of horror the man felt when he died. He finds a passage to the underground of Tokyo where he meets a mysterious naked woman that does not speak and he calls her F (Tomomi Miyashita). He brings F to his place and he has difficulties to feed her, until he discovers that she drinks blood. Masuika becomes a serial killer draining the blood of his victims to nurse F."Marebito" is a very weird low-budget movie that discloses the madness process of the lead character through his journey to hell in the underground of Tokyo. This original story is disturbing and unpleasant, using a morbid and creepy atmosphere, to unravel the twisted mind of a deranged man. However this strange movie is recommended for very specific audiences only. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Marebito: Seres Estranhos" ("Marebito: Weird Beings")

christopher-underwood This is some movie. At first deceptively simple and later maybe deceptively involved. Such was the confident manner of the director, Takashi Shimizu, I just went along despite everything and whilst it is difficult to associate with the lead character, the mighty, actor/director (Tetsuo) Shinya Tsuramoto, eventually persuades. Not an easy film to watch with its flashing and even blank screen moments, not to mention the horrific violence, but once this has you hooked, it is difficult to escape. Everything is unbelievable and yet there is a niggling doubt that just maybe things are this bad. Tsuramoto gives a towering performance as a completely lost soul searching it seems for almost anything to justify his existence. What he finds is not a pretty sight but this movie remains with you, for good or bad, long after viewing. Bold and original film making.