Loft (2005 film)
- Miki Nakatani: Reiko Hatuna
- Etsushi Toyokawa: Makoto Yoshioka
- Hidetoshi Nishijima: Koichi Kijima
- Yumi Adachi: Aya Minakami
- Sawa Suzuki: Megumi Nonomura
Loft (Japanese LOFTロフト, Rofuto ) is a Japanese horror film from director Kiyoshi Kurosawa 's 2005, who also wrote the screenplay.
Action
The successful and award-winning writer Reiko Hatuna tried for the first time on a love story, however, is suffering from writer's block and under a mysterious cough with expectoration of black muddy. To find peace, she decided, therefore, to escape the Tokyo metropolis and to draw on the recommendation of their lecturer Kijima in a remote country property, to complete her novel in isolation.
In the new home soon aroused the peculiar anthropologist Makoto Yoshioka their curiosity, who lives in a run-down vacant neighboring building with laboratories. Further research revealed that the scientists kept there for months, a 1000 year old female bog body for conservation work. As a sign one day graduate students in the anthropologist, he asks Reiko, despite the initial suspicion, take his mummy for a few days in her apartment. The young author, who is plagued by surreal daydreaming for quite some time, agrees fascinated, but simultaneously began to suffer from mysterious and frightening hallucinations of their murdered Vormieterin Aya Minakami. To keep the deadline of her novel, she unceremoniously writes from a found when moving literary work of their youthful and previous owner lost Aya and passes it to her editor happy. But even after Yoshioka collect the mummy again, listen to their visions and sightings do not occur.
Later, Reiko learns that even her neighbor the mummy expert is haunted by nightmares, which also deal with the fate of Ayas. The scientist was once witness how the young aspiring writer who has previously been quartered by Kijima in the country house, was abused after the completion of her first book in the dispute and buried alive. He rushed her then to help confused, hurt the supposedly possessed by an evil spirit and sank her body in Midori - pond. Since then, he suppressed his memories so that he forgot that act more or less. The reason for his visions examined the anthropologist since the mummy, which he later Reiko burns, to live so carefree. But he is haunted once again by ghosts. At the latest at this time to mix reality and imagination.
At the end of the film Kijima is arrested for the alleged murder of Aya, Reiko and Yoshioka their visions tell each other. The couple vows mutual love that arrives to the alleged pond where the lifeless body Ayas is rather accidentally transported with a winch to the surface. At the same time displacing and lügende anthropologist falls in front of the stunned Reiko into the water and is pulled into the depths.
Reviews
The video week wrote that the film was a " more Japanese Spukhausgeschichte in, Ring ' style to a water body from the past and their disastrous effects in the present. ". In addition, one could discover " little new or original ", but the film was " well packaged, played convincingly and choreographed to the point".
Focus on Film wrote that the film was a " Seasoned Japanese Beyond - horror ".