Five Flavours Festival: Door
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TypeCinema Hall
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.
DOOR, dir. Banmei Takahashi, Japan 1988, 93’
subtitles: Polish and English
