The Complex

2013 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

The movie stars former AKB48 member Atsuko Maeda as Asuka, a nursing student who moves into an apartment complex which has been plagued by mysterious deaths since an incident which occurred 13 years earlier. When Asuka investigates strange scratching noises coming from the adjacent apartment, she discovers the old man who lives there died while trying to claw through the wall. Hiroki Narimiya co-stars as a handyman named Sasahara who tells Asuka about other strange incidents and helps her when she’s later confronted by the old man’s ghost.

Direction Hideo Nakata

Cast Atsuko Maeda · Hiroki Narimiya · Masanobu Katsumura · Naomi Nishida · Kanau Tanaka

Soundtrack Kenji Kawai

Screenplay Junya Kato · Ryûta Miyake

Cinematography Junichirô Hayashi

Original title Kuroyuri danchi (The Complex)