Door
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Mrs Honda lives in an affluent district of Tokyo with her husband and young son. The family enjoys a beautiful apartment with an equally stunning view of the city skyline. She looks after the home and the child, while her husband provides for their comfortable life, an old-fashioned yet fairly common arrangement in Japan of the 1980s. At first, everyone seems content in this routine. That is, until the woman’s frustrations begin to surface and a persistent door-to-door salesman rings the bell, drawing her into open conflict.
Door is a brilliant time capsule of its era and one of the most important horror films in the history of Japanese cinema. Long considered lost, it now returns in a restored version. Today, it feels even more disturbing and charged with perversion than ever before.
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Łukasz Mańkowski
Banmei Takahashi
One of the most rebellious and consistent voices in Japanese auteur cinema. He started out in the world of pinku eiga, where, working with limited budgets and formal freedom, he developed a unique visual and narrative sensibility. In the 1980s, he co-founded the legendary Director's Company, a collective of directors (including Shinji Sōmai and Toshiharu Ikeda) that became a breeding ground for a new generation of filmmakers combining genre with artistic ambitions. Takahashi quickly went beyond the boundaries of erotic cinema, experimenting with the conventions of thriller and horror. His “Door” duology redefined the rules of Japanese horror, introducing elements of domestic paranoia and urban anxiety even before the world knew “Ringu.” In the following decades, he tackled religious, social, and biographical themes with equal ease, while maintaining a consistently personal tone. Today, he is regarded as a filmmaker who set the direction for a new, existential sensibility in Japanese genre cinema.
1972 Escaped Rapist Criminal / Escaped Rapist Criminal
1980 Girl Mistress / Girl Mistress
1982 Ōkami / Wolf
1982 Tattoo Ari / Tattoo Ari
1988 Drzwi / Doa / Door
1991 Door II: Tokyo Diary / Door II: Tokyo Diary
1994 Ai no Shinsekai / A New Love in Tokyo
2009 Zen
2010 BOX: The Hakamada Case / BOX: The Hakamada Case
