Marebito

A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo. In Tokyo, the freelance cameraman Takuyoshi Masuoka is obsessed investigating the fear sensation near death. When he photographs a man stabbing himself in the eye in the access to the subway, he seeks what the suicidal man might have seen to experiment the same sense of horror the man felt when he died. He finds a passage to the Tokyo underground where he meets a mysterious naked woman that does not speak, who he calls her F. He brings F to his place and he tries to feed her, until he discovers that she drinks blood. Masuika becomes a serial killer draining the blood of his victims to nurse F. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil It's been a long time since Takuyoshi, a freelance video cameraman lost in piles of old VHS tapes and lo-res video captures, felt something meaningful. After all, he is a nobody in a sea of nobodies. Everything changes when the lonely videographer captures a shocking suicide in Tokyo's subway. Seeking to understand the root of pure terror, Takuyoshi embarks on a labyrinthine mission to experience the same raw feeling, unaware that some doors are best left unopened. When he discovers a naked, pale-white woman deep underground, Takuyoshi must answer a critical question: If he knew his life was in grave danger, would he still want to pursue the harrowing truth? —Nick Riganas