Haze (2005)

Cautiously Recommended

Japan

Short Feature Film

Writer/Director/Cinematographer: Tsukamoto Shinya

Composer: Ishikawa Chu

Cast: Tsukamoto Shinya, Fujii Kaori

In Tsukamoto’s intriguing and vaguely unpleasant if never entirely effective short, a man awakens in a dark and dirty cramped space with a significant stomach wound and no memory of how he came to be there; as he explores his inhospitable environment, he becomes ever more convinced of his own demise, until he meets a similarly afflicted woman, who gives him the strength to carry on. Iain.Stott