Movie

Imprint

2006 · 63 min

A slow, nightmarish descent into layered horror and unreliable memory, with grotesque imagery that lingers long after.

Tagline: Watch your mouth.
Overview: An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, eerie and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Guilt, obsession, betrayal, madness
Content: Strong violence, gore and sexual content. Mild language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: guilt
obsession
betrayal
madness
death
Places: small town
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
single location
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex strong