Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Yamiutsu shinzo (2005)

Yamiutsu shinzo poster
Original title
闇打つ心臓
Directed by
Shunichi Nagasaki
Genre
drama
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 44m
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to a remote island to bury his dead mother. He becomes entangled with a mysterious woman and the local residents, uncovering dark secrets from the past.

slow-burnunsettlingbleakcontemplativetensemelancholicsurrealdeliberate

What happens

Heart, Beating in the Dark (Japanese: 闇打つ心臓, Hepburn: Yamiutsu shinzo) is a 2005 film directed by Japanese director Shunichi Nagasaki, partly a remake and partly a sequel to his 1982 film of the same name. (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?