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Dogra Magra

1988 · 109 min

A disorienting, cerebral plunge into madness and memory that rewards patience with unsettling, dreamlike images and ideas.

Directed by
Toshio Matsumoto
Genres
Horror, Mystery, Fantasy
Starring
Yoji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura, Hideo Murota
Overview
A young man murders his new bride and goes insane. He wakes in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.

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Directed by
Toshio Matsumoto
Genres
Horror, Mystery, Fantasy
Starring
Yoji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura, Hideo Murota
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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • madness
  • memory
  • identity
  • obsession
  • death
Places
  • hospital
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror6
Humour2
Realism4
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity9
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
horror, mystery, fantasy
Directed by
Toshio Matsumoto
Written by
Toshio Matsumoto, Atsushi Yamatoya
Starring
Yoji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura, Hideo Murota, Eri Misawa, Leo Morimoto, Jun Haichi, Kaori Kobayashi, Harukazu Kitami
Music
Haruna Miyake
Cinematography
Tatsuo Suzuki
Runtime
109 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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