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Ambiguous

2003 · 63 min

A quiet, claustrophobic descent into shared despair, intimate and unsettling, leaving you hollowed out long after it ends.

Directed by
Toshiya Ueno
Genres
Drama
Starring
Hidehisa Ebata, Noriko Murayama, Nikki Sasaki
Overview
Five suicidal people meet on the Internet and form a 'suicide group'. They arrange to meet at one of the member's homes to spend their last hours together.

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Directed by
Toshiya Ueno
Genres
Drama
Starring
Hidehisa Ebata, Noriko Murayama, Nikki Sasaki
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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 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
  • death
  • isolation
  • loneliness
  • grief
  • found family
Places
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism7
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
Asako Otake, Hidekazu Takahara
Starring
Hidehisa Ebata, Noriko Murayama, Nikki Sasaki, Minami Aoyama, Akio Kurauchi, Yohta Kawase, Suzuka Takaki, Mika Ogawa
Cinematography
Yasumasa Konishi
Runtime
63 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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