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Memorable, crazy movie

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

**** Possible Spoiler ****Marebito is a Japanese made vampire film. It's from the view of a loner cameraman who becomes obsessed with a girl he finds in the caverns underneath the city. I've seen about very Vampire movie there is...lol. It's my favorite genre. You have to like Vampire movies to enjoy this one. It's slow moving. It's a character builder type Vampire movie, not an action type movie. There are a lot of better Vampire movies out there, but if you've seen them all, then this is one you should see. Again, If Vampires are your thing, if not, then stay away from this one.I watched it with subtitles. Not sure if it comes in an English version. I doubt it.I gave it a 6/10 but the movie could have been so much better. It's a low budget Vampire Character building movie. Not bad though.Jim W

I did take this film very literally. I'm reading some other reviews and people have taken on a very abstract interpretation. That everything was symbolic. I hope this is their personal inference and not what the filmmaker has said in an interview paraphrased here because if so, the filmmaker might've been doing too much to legitimize a very unclear film.I took it as: the underworld beneath the subway station was in fact a hallucination or if not him going mad, then obviously he didn't physically travel and end up in this otherworldly netherworld. So I left that alone and saw it as, it's some kind of metaphor, he's not actually here. Here he meets a ghostly young girl. He takes her home, tries to get her to adapt to his world, and finds she only likes blood.OK well you know this film is very creepy. Of all the Japanese horror films I indulge myself in only the memory of this film and just typing about it made me look over my stupid shoulder. I know it's a horror film but that's why I don't like it. Because it's very potent in making you feel alone and it opens portals in your psyche that need not be opened, and fills them with things with which it need not be filled. Mainly because it's through the main character's disturbed eyes, particularly his camera. No idea why people say they hate the shaking camera as it's done in a documentary, homemade way intentionally.Well anyway overtime the guy is harassed by a woman. She tries to go in his house, and eventually she yells to take care of his daughter. The film shows he kills her. I took it literally. That he did in fact kill her. I never thought of him murdering her as a metaphor for him emotionally ruining her after abandoning her. But that he really is sick and killed her. And I thought this because he had this creature girl he called F. And the woman, the mother of his child who he "killed," asked him, "Where's Fuyumi! I know you have her! Stop hiding her!" So I saw it as, "Oh. The girl is actually his daughter and he is sick and tortures her...and the mother knows...and suddenly reality hits home so he again abandons his daughter, kills his wife, and wanders off.Apparently he emotionally killed his wife, not actually murdered her, and the girl isn't his daughter, just a representation of a part of his inner self that he doesn't understand. Hence why he found her in this abandoned fantasy of a location, that he basically said he was exploring out of bravery to discover the unknown. In this desolate "place," perhaps the representation of his inner self, he finds this starved half-dead thing in the form of a human female. Perhaps this female is the embodiment of his struggles. That plot twist or purpose ruins it because it makes it just mind-weaving and no thanks. I will never watch this again, it's really disturbing. Not because it's a bad film, just because it's disturbing which is its purpose. If I weren't disturbed and if it were more clear, I'd give it a higher rating.

This movie seemed to derive itself from the works of Abe Kobo, a Japanese existentialist novelist who created vast unseen worlds. The underworld presented in this book was much like those of Abe. The main character has no charisma and evokes no sympathy; however, as a viewer, I couldn't wait to see the next thing that would happen to him. He is a man obsessed by video, video-taping his whole day, then reviewing the tapes until late into the evening.A suicide, which he films, starts him on his journey into the underworld. He comes back with a mute vampire, who he is compelled to feed, eventually through a couple of matter-of-fact and video-documented murders. The movie is low-budget: The underworld is spiral stairways and municipal tunnels opening to what looks like a mountain-scape. None of these venues look like sets, but have a more mundane feel. The acting and directing is solid. I was disappointed by the ending which, I must confess, I didn't "get"...

'Marebito' is certainly better than your average US slasher flick, but don't expect much more than that.At the start, with the emphasis on voyeurism, recorded death and vicarious experience, it teeters on becoming something impressive and somehow relevant to the omniscience, nihilism and anonymity of the digital age.But the 'horror' aspects of this film completely ruin it. What begins so intriguingly becomes suddenly farcical, more akin to a sub-par episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Both the 'discovery' of a fantasy underworld, and then the clumsy Frankenstein narrative, are irredeemably hackneyed story lines that the director attempts to conceal behind portentous dialogue, edgy security-camera footage and a naked young woman.Like a lot of style-over-substance J-Horror films, the plot eventually comes to rely upon inexplicable twists and mysterious appearances that may excite some people's interest but in reality are the signs of bad writing and a half-baked story that can be modified with ease because nothing significant is taking place anyway.As for the 'hollow world' philosophy - it begs belief how pretentiously the film takes this, as if it has hit upon an entirely new idea. 'Underworlds', however, are a staple of horror movies; backing this one up with the obscure work of an early 20th century sci-fi writer doesn't make it any more exciting or screen-worthy.Overall 'Marebito' is disappointingly poor. Beautifully shot, atmospheric in places and all that, but artistically inert after the first twenty minutes and no more enjoyable than countless films that cover similar ground with much more panache and cinematic touch. It is the work of a complacent director and the product of a genre that all too easily loses itself in its own idiom.