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Manju Kowai

2014 · 1 season

A slow, unsettling mystery that burrows under your skin as a quiet coffee shop becomes the stage for a disturbing story.

Genres
Drama, Mystery
Overview
After buying an old coffee shop in a residential area of Tokyo, the master (Katsuhisa Namase) and his wife Yoko (Eiko Koike) rename the store and prepare to reopen it. Then, a girl in school uniform, Tokiyo (Kaho), comes into the store. She says she has been held captive for eight years by a man named Yamazaki and has escaped.
How it feels
Dark, tense, melancholic and eerie. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
Isolation, trauma, mystery, deception
Content
Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
Note
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How it feels

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Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror4
Humour2
Realism7
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, mystery
Written by
Kankuro Kudo
Starring
Katsuhisa Namase, Narushi Ikeda, Arata Furuta, Eiko Koike, Kaho, Kazushige Komatsu
Length
1 seasons, 1 episodes, 160 min each
Languages
Japanese

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