The Complex

The Complex

2013 · 106 min · ★ 4.8 · Horror

Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu, the handyman cleaning up the old man’s apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted.

Directed by Hideo Nakata · Written by Junya Kato

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Atsuko Maeda Asuka Ninomiya
Hiroki Narimiya Shinobu Sasahara
Masanobu Katsumura Isao Ninomiya
Naomi Nishida Sachiko Ninomiya
Sosei Tanaka Minoru
Masaya Takahashi Old Man Shinosaki
Satomi Tezuka Sanae Nonomura
Shirô Namiki Takehiko Ninomiya
Mariko Tsutsui Eiko Ninomiya
Yûrei Yanagi Ishizuka
Sota Aoyama Kanemoto
Megumi Sato Hitomi Makimura

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