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Door (1988)

Door poster
Original title
DOOR
Directed by
Banmei Takahashi
Genre
horror film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
15
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A housewife and her young son are terrorized by a menacing door-to-door salesman who will not leave them alone.

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What happens

Door (Japanese: ドア, Hepburn: Doa) is a 1988 Japanese horror thriller film directed by Banmei Takahashi and written by Takahashi and Ataru Oikawa. It stars Keiko Takahashi, Daijiro Tsutsumi, Shirō Shimomoto and Takuto Yonezu. The film follows a housewife and her young son who are stalked by a psychopathic door-to-door salesman. A sequel was released in 1991, which was again directed by Banmei Takahashi but features different characters. Another sequel, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, came out in 1996. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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