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| Directed by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Written by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Starring | Miki Nakatani Etsushi Toyokawa |
| Cinematography | Akiko Ashizawa |
| Edited by | Masahiro Onaga |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Loft is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Miki Nakatani and Etsushi Toyokawa.
Reiko Haruna, a prize-winning writer, moves to a quiet suburban house to finish up her new novel. One night she sees a man in a storage room transporting an object wrapped in cloth. She finds out that he is Makoto Yoshioka, an archaeologist researching ancient mummies, and that object was a recently discovered mummy. Working late on her book, she sees a ghost and finds out that her room once belonged to a woman who disappeared.
Sky Hirschkron of Stylus Magazine gave Loft a "C" grade. [1] However Julien Gester of Les Inrockuptibles titled that the movie had a "disturbing splendor". [2]
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