Creepy (Japanese Movie)

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Movie: Creepy
Romaji: Kuripi Itsuwari no Rinjin
Japanese: クリーピー　偽りの隣人
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writer: Yutaka Maekawa (novel), Chihiro Ikeda, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Producer: HiroshiFukasawa, Setsuko Sumida, Satoshi Akagi, Satoko Ishida, Kota Kuroda
Cinematographer: Akiko Ashizawa
World Premiere: February 13, 2016 (Berlin IFF)
Release Date: June 18, 2016
Runtime: 130 min.
Genre: Mystery / Suspense-Thriller
Distributor: Shochiku, Asmik Ace Entertainment
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami (Masahiro Higashide), to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's (Haruna Kawaguchi) memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case.

Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko (Yuko Takeuchi) recently moved into a new home. Their neighbor, Nishino (Teruyuki Kagawa), has a sick wife and a young teen daughter. One day, the daughter, Mio, jumps into Takakura's house and tells him that the man is not her father and she doesn't know him at all.

Notes

Based on novel "Creepy" by Yutaka Maekawa (published 2012 by Kobunsha).
Filming begins early August, 2015 and finishes early September, 2015. Filming location is in Tokyo and the suburbs of Kanto region.

Cast



Hidetoshi Nishijima	Yuko Takeuchi	Haruna Kawaguchi	Masahiro Higashide	Teruyuki Kagawa
Takakura	Yasuko	Saki	Nogami	Nishino



Ryoko Fujino	Masahiro Toda	Toru Baba	Misaki Saisho	Takashi Sasano
Mio	Okawa	Matsuoka	Taeko	Tanimoto

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Film Festivals

2016 (66th) Berlin International Film Festival - Feb. 11-21, 2016 - Berlinale Special Gala *World Premiere
2016 (18th) Udine Far East Film - April 22-April 30, 2016 *Italian Premiere
2016 (16th) Nippon Connection - May 24-29, 2016 - Nippon Cinema

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rickt May 19 2021 7:52 am Couldn’t help but laugh at the polarising comments; it’s either “Best Thriller Ever!” or “what a shit movie with dumb character!”.

I can definitely agree with most though, it’s painful to watch. Started out very slow with seemingly random unconnected potential stories. But I think it was good they provided plenty of background stories so when things started to connect it formed a much better picture. That’s not to say I didn’t have to take several deep frustrated sighs throughout the whole thing. Yes, several things didn’t make sense, but ending wasn’t bad so just keep watching.

Favourite character was definitely Marcus! He was perfect in every scene, even if he was a little misguided at times, he was still the goodest boy!

Jpoper Jan 12 2020 3:41 am I just want to share my concern about this movie. There are many recklessness made by the characters in this movie but I oversaw it but at the end of the movie, it just doesn't make sense anymore.

I mean at the first scene, why is the security lax? Considering that person murdered 8 people. He should atleast hancuffed.

Atleast the title gives justice to the villain. He's creepy. Hahaha.

- Don't watch this if you have weak heart. Personally I think producers/writers of this film want to scare people and to remind that there are people out there like him so don't trust easily.

bad Oct 16 2017 11:34 am story was good (but going nowhere), everything else is bad. everyone is stupid and they lack commonsense. bad movie. waste my time watching this.

Echa May 26 2017 11:01 am Best thriller movie i've seen, but i really didn't understand what happen in the end.

Ioneha Mar 25 2017 4:44 pm If you overthink it and compare it to the knowledge you may already have on the subject matter in this movie,you probably won't enjoy it.

That being said,it you just watch it for the ride and intrigue that comes with Japanese thrillers,you may come to find that the film really does live up to its title.

momo Mar 16 2017 10:42 pm gosh, good but painful movie.... common sense not particularly applied anywhere here... for example, never... ever.... go without back up..... keeping me at the edge because of all the unnecessary poor decision making by all characters ...... (-_-)

Keto Mar 09 2017 1:07 pm Worthless movie..The stupidest characters ever..It blows.

mikiya Mar 08 2017 6:40 pm the most painful movie i've ever seen. but the movie was amazing

KuiKui Feb 05 2017 1:07 am Do not watch this S*** Movie

Toan Jan 21 2017 9:45 pm Has to the dumbest characters in any movie I've ever witness. So many stupid decisions and lack of motor skills to do even the simplest action. Who stands there staring when someone uses their house key and opens their door repeatedly?? Who stops obediently and gives their hand when a goddamn psycho tells them to?? I started wanting them to be killed off eventually. Sigh what a waste of time.

Niiki Jan 14 2017 10:24 am Best film ive seen all year, such an amazing intense and suspenseful storyline with great acting and love the darkness of the film, highly reccomend this.

Clueless Dec 30 2016 10:17 pm I'm really clueless what happened on the ending. I thought all of them became some sort of a psychopath. Can someone really explain what really happened?

Thank you.

Disappointed Dec 12 2016 9:03 am I feel frustrated throughout watching the whole movie and right before the emotional ending I thought that none of the characters deserved my sympathy because they didn't try hard enough to resist the psychopath. The movie itself was decent for a thriller but I was looking for something smart and less frustrating :p

Nikki Dec 03 2016 9:39 am HOLY CRAP. I just saw this in the cinema today and it was absolutely mindblowing. I can't reccommend this to people enough, it is all kinds of effed up but in a good way. Holy moly, this movie is going to stick with me forever, definitely one of my favorites.

sam Jun 21 2016 6:05 am I cannot wait!

Clytie Apr 09 2016 10:46 am Is this movie available in the US?

toma Dec 18 2015 11:17 pm Hidetoshi has played some amazing movies but im watching this movie for sure since story line is a mystery and a curious one

Creepy (Japanese Movie)

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