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

Loft
Directed byKiyoshi Kurosawa
Written byKiyoshi Kurosawa
StarringMiki Nakatani
Etsushi Toyokawa
CinematographyAkiko Ashizawa
Edited byMasahiro Onaga
Release dates
  • October 8, 2005 (2005-10-08) (Pusan International Film Festival)
  • September 9, 2006 (2006-09-09) (Japan)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Plot edit

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.

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Reception edit

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 edit

  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

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