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真木栗ノ穴 (2007)

真木栗ノ穴 poster
Directed by
Yoshihiro Fukagawa
Genre
horror film
Country
Japan

How it feels

A writer struggling with a commissioned erotic novel discovers a hole in his rundown apartment that lets him see into a vacant room. He starts imagining a young woman moving in and writes based on that fantasy. When a woman actually moves into the room, he becomes obsessed with watching her.

tensevoyeuristicslow-burnunsettlingmelancholicatmosphericobsessivepsychologically charged

What happens

真木栗ノ穴(まきぐりのあな)は、2007年製作の日本映画。 『東京国際映画祭』のある視点部門に出品された作品で2008年10月18日より公開された。 築40年の安アパートに暮らす作家の真木栗は、官能小説を依頼されるもののアイデアが浮かばない。そんなある日、隣の空き部屋を覗くことができる穴を見つけた真木栗は、そこに若い女が引っ越してくることを妄想し、それをもとに小説を書き始める。やがて、その空き部屋に本当に女が引っ越してきて、その生活を覗き見る真木栗は女の虜になっていく……。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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