Loft (2005 film)

Loft
Directed byKiyoshi Kurosawa
Written byKiyoshi Kurosawa
StarringMiki Nakatani
Etsushi Toyokawa
CinematographyAkiko Ashizawa
Edited byMasahiro Onaga
Release dates
  • October 8, 2005 (2005-10-08) (Pusan International Film Festival)
  • September 9, 2006 (2006-09-09) (Japan)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Loft is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Miki Nakatani and Etsushi Toyokawa.

Plot

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Reiko Haruna, a prize-winning writer, moves to a quiet suburban house to finish up her new novel. One night she sees a man in a storage room transporting an object wrapped in cloth. She finds out that he is Makoto Yoshioka, an archaeologist researching ancient mummies, and that object was a recently discovered mummy. Working late on her book, she sees a ghost and finds out that her room once belonged to a woman who disappeared.

Cast

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Reception

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Sky Hirschkron of Stylus Magazine gave Loft a "C" grade.[1] However Julien Gester of Les Inrockuptibles titled that the movie had a "disturbing splendor".[2]

References

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  1. ^ Hirschkron, Sky (March 15, 2006). "Loft - Movie Review". Stylus Magazine.
  2. ^ Gester, Julien (2006-01-01). "LOFT". Les Inrockuptibles. Retrieved 2017-03-16. Peuplé de momies et de fantômes, le nouveau film du réalisateur de Kaïro est d'une inquiétante splendeur
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