Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Himitsu (1999)

Himitsu poster
Original title
秘密
Directed by
Yōjirō Takita
Genre
fantasy film, romance film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 59m
Rated
15
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 34 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man and his daughter deal with the aftermath of a car accident that leaves his wife in a coma. The wife's spirit ends up living inside the daughter's body. They all try to adjust to this strange new arrangement.

tenderbittersweetintimateunsettlinglyricalcontemplativequietmelancholic

What happens

Himitsu (Japanese: 秘密), also known as Secret, is a 1999 Japanese fantasy romance film directed by Yōjirō Takita, starring Ryōko Hirosue, Kaoru Kobayashi and Kayoko Kishimoto and based on the novel Naoko by Keigo Higashino. It was released on 25 September 1999. An English-language French remake, The Secret, was released in 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?