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.

Marebito is the kind of horror film that relies on atmosphere and not loud noises to scare you. Sadly, the biggest problem with this film was its slow pace. It had some wonderfully interesting moments, but over all many scenes felt like they drag on. There's many different ways to interpret this film, which I love, and the ending is creepy enough to stay with you. I wish I was able to love this film, but I only loved specific moments, while the rest of the film left me underwhelmed. If you're looking for a unique Japanese horror film that will give you a major case of the creeps, check this out, but be prepared to be a little bored at times.

After filming a man committing suicide in a Tokyo subway, "Masuoka" (Shin'ya Tsukamoto) becomes obsessed in his quest to understand what real fear feels like. Convinced that the answers lie deep underground in the Tokyo subways, he ventures into the tunnels and hidden passages to discover a young naked woman (Tomomi Miyashita) chained up within the heart of an enormous developed cavern. He then takes the young woman to his apartment and names her "F". However, as she grows weaker he frantically looks for a cure and discovers that she has a severe need for blood. He then goes about the city to procure it. At any rate, rather than reveal the entire story I will just say that this is an excellent example of what a good director (Takashi Shimizu) can do with a limited budget but a lot of creativity. Now, I will admit that I don't totally understand everything this film tries to get across as some of it may have been lost in translation. But with a little imagination I think most people will be able to enjoy it all the same.

OK at parts. but just too crappy at some other parts...i mean i know the camera he is using pretty well... and the whole picture has been propably shot with that... but why put some cheezy TV-effect or reshoot through a monitor... i looks disgusting? this is a dv-movie. it is OK at being such... so there the three points. other than that nothing really astonishing here.it really isn't great movie, but it's not a bad one. if you are starting to make movies then this is good to watch, what can be done with 30 000 Euros (40k $).those dvcams are just so light that getting good hand held picture doesn't really work... looks kinda crappy. i think that they should have gotten a some steadyshot get better picture.not that horrendous though... some interesting dialogue.you could rent this if interested in dv-work... other than that maybe pass.