Japanese Movie: The Door

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When I lived in Japan back in the early 1990s, I rented this movie from the local video place. It’s a suspense-drama flick and I’d like to purchase a copy of it. I can’t find the thing anywhere and my googling abilities appear to be lacking.

Here’s a quick summary with no spoilers:

Young family–dad, mom, little boy–live in an apartment high-rise. Dad has to go on an extended field trip for his engineering job. While he’s gone, a guy who’s just starting to work as a door-to-door salesman has a confrontation with the mom and he snaps. The rest of the story is the suspense drama of the matter.

Anyway, anyone know where I can find it?

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I don’t know if this is the correct movie or not, but you can try it.

If it is right, they have one copy. Depending on where you live, they may or may not ship to you, though, since it’s an independent seller.

If that’s the right movie, I might be able to find it somewhere else for you.

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Actually, that isn’t it, with my meager ability to read a few of the words, but I tried. If I find anything that might be it, though, I’ll let you know. I sort of jumped the gun when I saw the release date.

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Aha! :x Sorry for the multiple messages, but I do believe this might be it.

Release date is 1988, and although I can’t really read the description it mentions some of the things you had in your synopsis.

5

Wrong Door. Or, more accurately, Doors.

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I noticed that about thirty-five seconds too late :x

I can’t read japanese beyond basic hiragana and a half-dozen kanji, but then I saw the director’s name, and went ‘oops’.

I think the second link I posted is the right one, though. The reviewer talks about the apartment and the salesman, if I’m not completely stupid, today.

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This sounds like the right one. The customer comment says it’s about a housewife in an expensive apartment being stalked by a crazed salesman.

Here’s the page with some info in English.

And the imdb page:

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Ah, thanks! I was looking for the IMDB page, but hadn’t been able to find it.

I like movies of this sort, so now I’m a bit interested, myself.

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You might also want to try Scarecrow in Seattle. They have almost everything, and if they don’t have it they can get it. I would recommend calling or emailing, as what they show on line is not indicative of all that they have.

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Thanks! The one in post #4 is it. The movie’s great, IMHO. You don’t even have to understand Japanese for it because there’s not that much dialog in it. Actually, it kinds of adds to the suspense if one doesn’t understand the language.