is a 2005 Japanese

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written and directed by

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who also stars in the movie. After appearances at several international festivals in 2005, the film debuted theatrically in Japan on March 4, 2006. Two versions of the film exist: the original release, a short 25-minute version; and what Director Tsukamoto titled the "Long Version", which runs 49 minutes.''Twitch Film''
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Plot

A man wakes up in a small concrete space bleeding from the abdomen. He can barely move and has no recollection of why or how he came to be there. Crawling forward, he eventually meets a woman and they try to piece together their past lives.

Cast

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Reception

Keith Uhlich from ''

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'' awarded the film three and a half out of four stars, writing, "Many directors would no doubt take a god’s-eye perspective of ''Hazes hero, but Tsukamoto favors an intimate camera style that offsets the genre film

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and grounds his movie in a terrifyingly mortal perspective." Niina Doherty from ''HorrorNews.net'' gave the film a positive review, praising the film's claustrophobic atmosphere, sound design, and cinematography.

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* * * * 2005 films 2005 horror films 2005 short films 2000s Japanese films 2000s Japanese-language films 2000s mystery horror films Films directed by Shinya Tsukamoto Films scored by Chu Ishikawa Japanese mystery horror films Japanese short films Japanese splatter films {{2000s-horror-film-stub