Loft (2005 film)

2005 Japanese film
  • October 8, 2005 (2005-10-08) (Pusan International Film Festival)
  • September 9, 2006 (2006-09-09) (Japan)
Running time
115 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapanese

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

Plot

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

  • Miki Nakatani - Reiko Haruna
  • Etsushi Toyokawa - Makoto Yoshioka
  • Hidetoshi Nishijima - Koichi Kijima
  • Yumi Adachi - Aya
  • Sawa Suzuki - Megumi Nonomura
  • Haruhiko Kato - Murakami
  • Ren Osugi - Hino

Reception

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

  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
  • Loft at IMDb
  • Review, d-kaz
  • Review at Snowblood Apple
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Films directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  • Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983)
  • Sweet Home (1989)
  • The Guard from Underground (1992)
  • Cure (1997)
  • License to Live (1998)
  • Charisma (1999)
  • Séance (2000)
  • Pulse (2001)
  • Bright Future (2003)
  • Doppelganger (2003)
  • Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs (2005)
  • Loft (2005)
  • Retribution (2006)
  • Tokyo Sonata (2008)
  • Real (2013)
  • Seventh Code (2013)
  • 1905 (cancelled)
  • Journey to the Shore (2015)
  • Creepy (2016)
  • Daguerrotype (2016)
  • Before We Vanish (2017)
  • Foreboding (2018)
  • To the Ends of the Earth (2019)
  • Wife of a Spy (2020)
  • Cloud (2024)
  • Serpent's Path (2024)


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