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Hitori Kakurenbo Gekijo Ban
Hide and Seek
Japan 2009
produced by Shuichi Isoda, Yoichi Kobayashi, Takafumi Ohashi, Kazue Udagawa, Kyosuke Ueno for JollyRoger
directed by Masafumi Yamada
starring Yukie Kawamura, Mayuko Kawakita, Masahiro Usui, Ben Yuzawa, Yuzu Kubota, Miyu Wagawa, Toshihiko Yamamoto, Mayumi Hori, Jun Sugawara, Hiroshi Umeda, Shoichi Matsuda, Naoko Iketani, Wakahiro Inukai, Mami Sato, Maari, Ami Hirose, Tsubasa Takasu, Hinano, Sae Abe, Sakura Kawasaki, Naoko Mori
written by Takeshi Miyamoto, Masafumi Yamada, music by Hiroki Yasaka, special makeup effects by Atsuko Otake
review by Mike Haberfelner
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There is obviously an urban legend around that says if you substitute your
favourite doll's stuffing with rise, tie it up and drown it, and hide
yourself in a
cupboard, a ghost will come and get you A highschool teacher starts to
research this, especially after one of her students and a colleague have
vanished trying out above experiment. And after much to and fro and a bit
of haunting along the way, the teacher finds out that she is actually at
the center of the whole urban legend, because the ghost in question is a
girl who drowned when they were playing hide-and-seek ... Very
routine exercise in J-horror moviemaking of the urban legends-variety that
came into vogue at least after Ringu,
with which this film shares quite a few motives. Now that wouldn't essentially
be a bad thing, the problem with Hide and Seek is that it simply
isn't very good: It's intentionally slow pace derives its story of its
effectiveness (just like a too frantic pace would), its shock scenes are
simply not all that scary, and its basic mystery is pretty much
predictable on one hand and not very involving at the other. In all, not
a movie worth seeing.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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