Marebito - Tartan USA

An obsessive cameraman named Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) becomes infatuated with understanding fear. He wanders the streets of Tokyo videotaping people until one day he captures footage of a man on the subway who commits a sudden and grisly suicide. Masuoka can’t seem to shake the image of the man’s face before he died, and keeps re-watching the tape in an attempt to understand what the man was feeling in that moment.

As Masuoka teeters on the edge of sanity he finds a young girl deep in a hidden section of the subway who he decides to refer to as “F” (Tomomi Miyashita). She can’t talk and after a few days he discovers she can only survive by drinking human blood. He keeps her locked up in his apartment and occasionally helps her feed by murdering innocent people, but it soon becomes clear that he has a disturbingly fragile grasp on reality.

Region 1, NTSC, anamorphic widescreen 1.78:1, DVD-9. Japanese DTS and Dolby 5.1 audio with optional English and Spanish subtitles. Features include interviews, director’s discussion, and trailers.

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Available at the following retailer(s) on March 14, 2006:

• Amazon.com
• Amazon.ca
• YesAsia
• HKFlix