Apartment 1303 DVDrip {BALA}

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Apartment 1303


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Movie Information




Release year.........: 2007


Genre................: Horror


IMDb rating..........: 5.0/10


IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0841993/
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Language.............: Japanese


Subtitles............: English .srt

Duration.............: 1h 36mn


Source...............: DVD R3


Format...............: MPEG-4


Format/Info..........: Base Media


File size............: 737 MB


Overall bit rate.....: 1 069 Kbps


Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.8




Video/Audio Attributes




Format................: AVC


Format profile........: High@L3.0


Codec ID..............: avc1


Bit rate..............: 1 000 Kbps


Width.................: 720 pixels


Height................: 480 pixels


Display aspect ratio..: 16:9


Frame rate............: 24.757 fps


Bits/(Pixel*Frame)....: 0.117


Writing library.......: x264 core 120

Format/Info...........: Advanced Audio Codec


Bit rate mode.........: Variable


Bit rate..............: 64.2 Kbps


Channel(s)............: 2 channels


Channel positions.....: Front: L R


Sampling rate.........: 48.0 KHz


Compression mode......: Lossy




Plot summary




Apartment 1303 is directed by Oikawa Ataru, a name familiar to J-Horror fans through such films as Tomie(1999), Tomie: Beginning(2005), Tomie: Revenge(2005) and Tokyo Psycho(2004). The filmography by Tokusho Kikumra whose past works include the Ju-On films with director Takeshi Shimizu and several films with director extraordinaire Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Together, along with a decent cast, the ingredients all seem in place for a decent horror tale. And by and large Apartment 1303 is just that, though it suffers from a rather confusing storyline which may leave you scratching your head if you give it a second thought. Based on Ju-on horror author Kei Oishi's original novel.

This is squarely within the Haunted House genre and does a rather good job of portraying a seemingly innocuous apartment by day as a very creepy and spook-filled haunt by night. Unfortunately for those quite familiar with contemporary Japanese horror, most of the narratives elements and sub-plots will seem eerily familiar. There is the apparently obligatory back story of a sad mother-daughter relationship, the female-laden cast, the creepy little girl, the increasingly foreboding closet in a back room, and the long black hair. Oh, that hair! There's also an attempt at sympathetic ghoul-hugging(gone awry). Though all of these elements are arranged in a way unique to the film, the sense that I had seen most of this before, perhaps most palpably in Hideo Nakatas Dark Water(2002) was almost inescapable, even down to the films very evident intent to invoke some sort of statement regarding single mothers and their daughters. But there are a lot of cute girls here, including some in frilly maid uniforms, so make of that what you will.

When happy-go-lucky Sayaka jumps from the thirteenth floor balcony of her new apartment after only one day(!), her elder sister Mariko(Noriko Nakagoshi) refuses to believe it was suicide despite the conclusions of the police report. The fact that she and her mother soon begin seeing dreadful apparitions of Sayaka does not help and with the help of a creepy little girl in the apartment next door and a local detective familiar with the incident learns of the dark history of Apartment 1303. Years prior a rather shocking story emerged when a quiet young woman leaps to her death from the balcony of the apartment. When the police searched the home during their investigation, they found the mummified corpse of the womans mother whom she had apparently murdered and kept in a closet in the back room. Since that initial event, no less than eight young woman had similarly jumped from the same balcony soon after moving in. Though this pattern is obviously more than mere coincidence, the police can only deem them suicides since there is no evidence of an accident or foul play. It is only when Mariko spends the night in the apartment herself that she learns first hand what lies behind the suicide of her sister and the many others.




Production




Genre: Haunted House Horror


Distributed by: MonteCristo International


Studio: Amuse


Studio: Career & Bridge


Studio: T.O. Entertainment


Release Date: October 27, 2007

Ataru Oikawa...........: Director/Screenwriter


Chiaki Harada..........: Producer


Kei Oishi..............: Book Author/Screenwriter


Takamasa Saito.........: Screenwriter


Tokusho Kikumura.......: Cinematographer


John Lissauer..........: Composer(Music Score)


Masaki Miyoshi.........: Composer(Music Score)


Shuichi Kakesu.........: Editor


Hiroyasu Koizumi.......: Production Designer


Naoya Narita...........: Co-producer


Yasuhiko Higashi.......: Co-producer


Yoko Ueda..............: Associate Producer


Yuki Yamato............: Associate Producer


Cindy Nelson Mullen....: Executive Producer


Michael Taverna........: Executive Producer


Takeshi Honda..........: Executive Producer


Daniel Fridell.........: Co-Executive Producer


Per Samuelsson.........: Co-Executive Producer




Cast




Noriko Nakagoshi.......: Mariko


Arata Furuta...........: Detective Sakurai


Eriko Hatsune


Yuka Itaya


Naoko Otani


Aki Fukada


Toshinobu Matsuo


Shion Machida


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Date of post.......: 02.04.2013