{"id":119,"date":"2006-10-13T12:25:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T16:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/119"},"modified":"2009-09-11T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T20:27:00","slug":"marebito-2004-takashi-shimizu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/119","title":{"rendered":"Marebito (2004, Takashi Shimizu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameraman Masuoka (played by Shinya Tsukamoto, director of <em>Tokyo Fist<\/em>, <em>Tetsuo<\/em> &#038; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/161\">Haze<\/a><\/em>!) is obsessed with fear.  He catches a guy looking terrified in the subway stabbing himself in the eye, and Masuoka is off on a goofy adventure to find out what scared the old man to death.  On his way home, he&#8217;s often annoyed by a kooky neighbor claiming to be his wife, ranting about how their daughter is missing.  Masuoka can&#8217;t be bothered with this &#8211; he needs to explore the magical subterranean wonderland beneath the city, where he evades monsters long enough to find and rescue a young naked woman, who he brings home.  The woman doesn&#8217;t respond to much, acts like an animal, etc.  Still being harassed by the kooky neighbor, Masuoka finds a way to kill her without being detected.  He probably has sex with the young woman too &#8211; if he does explicitly, I&#8217;ve blocked it out already.  Either way, she of course turns out to be his daughter, and of course he murdered his wife and there you go.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is shaky and ugly and lo-fi and annoying all of the time, often being filtered through our protagonist&#8217;s unsteady videocams.  Except when the guy goes underground and finds his daughter &#8211; really nice looking few minutes in there.  Not so bad overall I guess.  From the director of all seven <em>Ju-On The Grudge<\/em> movies.<\/p>\n<p>Katy didn&#8217;t watch this one. Katy wouldn&#8217;t have liked it one bit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameraman Masuoka (played by Shinya Tsukamoto, director of Tokyo Fist, Tetsuo &#038; Haze!) is obsessed with fear. He catches a guy looking terrified in the subway stabbing himself in the eye, and Masuoka is off on a goofy adventure to find out what scared the old man to death. On his way home, he&#8217;s often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,54,36,1542],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-horror","tag-japan","tag-takashi-shimizu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}