Loft (2005)

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Movie
German title Loft
Original title LOFT ロ フ ト
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2005
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
script Kiyoshi Kurosawa
production Atsuyuki Shimoda
music Gary Ashiya
camera Akiko Ashizawa
cut Masahiro Ōnaga
occupation

Loft ( Jap. LOFTロフト , Rofuto ) is a Japanese horror film from director Kiyoshi Kurosawa in 2005, who also wrote the screenplay.

action

The successful and award-winning writer Reiko Hatuna tries her hand at a love story for the first time, but suffers from writer's block and a mysterious cough with black muddy sputum. In order to find peace, she therefore decides to escape the Tokyo metropolis and, on the recommendation of her lecturer Kijima, to move to a remote country house in order to complete her novel in isolation.

In the new domicile, the strange anthropologist Makoto Yoshioka soon aroused her curiosity, who lives in a run-down, empty neighboring building with laboratories. Further research shows that the scientist has been keeping a 1000-year-old female bog corpse there for conservation work for months . One day, when doctoral students register with the anthropologist, he asks Reiko, despite initial distrust, to take his mummy in her apartment for a few days. The young author, who has been plagued by surreal daydreams for some time, agrees with fascination, but from then on begins to suffer from mysterious and frightening hallucinations of her murdered previous tenant Aya Minakami. In order to be able to meet the deadline for submitting her novel, she simply copies a literary work of her young and missing previous owner Aya that she finds when she moves in and hands it over to her happy editor. But even after Yoshioka picks up the mummy again, her visions and sightings do not stop.

Reiko later learns that her neighbor, the mummy expert, is also plagued by nightmares that also deal with Aya's fate. The scientist once witnessed how the young aspiring writer, who had previously been quartered in the country house by Kijima, was mistreated in a dispute and buried alive after the completion of her first book. Confused, he rushed to her help, injured the supposedly possessed by the evil spirit and sank her corpse in the Midori pond. Since then he suppressed his memories so that he more or less forgot that act. Since then, the anthropologist has been looking for the reason for his visions in the mummy, which he later burns with Reiko in order to be able to live carefree. But he is haunted again by ghost apparitions. At this point at the latest, reality and imagination mix.

At the end of the film, Kijima is arrested for the alleged murder of Aya, while Reiko and Yoshioka share their visions. The couple swear to love each other and arrive at what is supposed to be the pond, where Aya's lifeless body is more or less accidentally lifted to the surface with a winch. At the same time, the displacing and lying anthropologist falls into the water in front of the stunned Reiko and is drawn into the depths.

Reviews

The VideoWoche wrote that the film was “ another Japanese haunted house story in ' ring ' fashion about a water corpse from the past and its fateful influences in the present. ". In addition, one could discover “ little new or original ”, but the film was “ well packaged, convincingly played and choreographed to the point ”.

Blickpunkt: Film wrote that the film was an " experienced Japanese afterlife horror ".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Film review on amazon.de