The Complex ( Kuroyuri danchi )

The Complex (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kuroyuri danchi
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
106 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Hideo Nakata

Written By:
Ryûta Miyake
Jun'ya Katô

Actors:
Atsuko Maeda ..... Asuka
Hiroki Narimiya ..... Sasahara
Masanobu Katsumura
Naomi Nishida
Masaya Takahashi
Kanau Tanaka

Synopsis:

Japanese horror directed by Hideo Nakata. Student nurse Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) moves into a rundown apartment building with her parents and younger brother. Kept awake at night by muffled scratching noises from her neighbour's room, she grows weary of the other inhabitants and fearful of the spooky building. Determined to find out what the scratching noises are she decides to investigate, but what she finds may compromise her sanity...

Nursing student Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu (Hiroki Narimiya), the handyman cleaning up the old man's apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted. When the late night scratching returns, Asuka ventures back into her neighbor's home and comes face to face with an apparition of the old man! Panicked by the discovery of her apartment emptied and her family gone, Asuka seeks help from Shinobu, who brings in a spiritualist to exorcise Asuka of the evil surrounding her. However, as she delves into the girl's predicament, the spiritualist discovers that signs points not to the old man but to a small boy living in the complex with a past as tragic as the one Asuka herself lives in denial of.

The movie follows Asuka (Atsuko Maeda), a young nursing student who has moved into an ancient apartment complex with her family. After hearing some scratching noises coming from the apartment next door, Asuka discovers that her elderly neighbor has died from malnutrition. This disturbs her, especially after discovering claw marks on the wall that divides his apartment and her room. Asuka becomes frightened when the scratching doesn't stop with his death. Further investigation not only brings about a confrontation with the ghost of her neighbor, but also with the knowledge that the complex has had several mysterious deaths over the years.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 05 May, 2014.