Loft (2005 film)

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2005 Japanese film

Loft

Directed by| Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Written by| Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring| Miki Nakatani
Etsushi Toyokawa
Cinematography| Akiko Ashizawa
Edited by| Masahiro Onaga

Release dates

* October 8, 2005 (2005-10-08) (Pusan International Film Festival)
* September 9, 2006 (2006-09-09) (Japan)

Running time

| 115 minutes
Country| Japan
Language| Japanese

Loft is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Miki Nakatani and Etsushi Toyokawa.

## Plot

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Reiko Haruna, a prize-winning writer, moves to a quiet suburban house to finish up her new novel. One night she sees a man in a storage room transporting an object wrapped in cloth. She finds out that he is Makoto Yoshioka, an archaeologist researching ancient mummies, and that object was a recently discovered mummy. Working late on her book, she sees a ghost and finds out that her room once belonged to a woman who disappeared.

## Cast

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* Miki Nakatani \- Reiko Haruna
* Etsushi Toyokawa \- Makoto Yoshioka
* Hidetoshi Nishijima \- Koichi Kijima
* Yumi Adachi \- Aya
* Sawa Suzuki \- Megumi Nonomura
* Haruhiko Kato \- Murakami
* Ren Osugi \- Hino

## Reception

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Sky Hirschkron of Stylus Magazine gave Loft a "C" grade.[1] However Julien Gester of Les Inrockuptibles titled that the movie had a "disturbing splendor".[2]

## References

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1. ^ Hirschkron, Sky (March 15, 2006). "Loft - Movie Review". Stylus Magazine.
2. ^ Gester, Julien (2006-01-01). "LOFT". Les Inrockuptibles. Retrieved 2017-03-16. "Peuplé de momies et de fantômes, le nouveau film du réalisateur de Kaïro est d'une inquiétante splendeur"

## External links

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* Loft at IMDb
* Review, d-kaz
* Review at Snowblood Apple

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Films directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

* Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983)
* Sweet Home (1989)
* The Guard from Underground (1992)
* Cure (1997)
* License to Live (1998)
* Charisma (1999)
* Séance (2000)
* Pulse (2001)
* Bright Future (2003)
* Doppelganger (2003)
* Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs (2005)
* Loft (2005)
* Retribution (2006)
* Tokyo Sonata (2008)
* Real (2013)
* Seventh Code (2013)
* 1905 (cancelled)
* Journey to the Shore (2015)
* Creepy (2016)
* Daguerrotype (2016)
* Before We Vanish (2017)
* Foreboding (2018)
* To the Ends of the Earth (2019)
* Wife of a Spy (2020)
* Cloud (2024)
* Serpent's Path (2024)

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