Directed and written by Yosuke Goto, Bldg. N is based on actual events that happened in a Gifu Prefecture apartment complex in 2000.
Shiori (Minori Hagiwara) is a college student that has a fear of death known as thanatophobia which keeps her from sleeping but also haunts her every waking moment. To try and escape her constant depression, she joins her ex-boyfriend Keita (Yuki Kura) and his current girlfriend Maho (Kasumi Yamaya) to film a rural housing plan where rumors of ghostly activities have been reported.
The three college students lie and explain that they are looking for a place to live. Invited to a welcome party, they learn that the building's residents live with ghosts quite literally. As their leader Kanako (Mariko Tsutsui) explains, that means trying to understand them. Then someone runs over a rail and kills themself.
This would be the time to leave.
So you end up with a death cult meeting up with a girl whose fear of death leads her to be irrational about everything. While she's also quite tiny, she's also a killing machine. And while the film eventually becomes a more standard J-horror movie than the opening may promise and its characters make some of the dumbest decisions ever, at least Hagiwara is great as the lead and it looks interesting.
Shiori (Minori Hagiwara) is a college student that has a fear of death known as thanatophobia which keeps her from sleeping but also haunts her every waking moment. To try and escape her constant depression, she joins her ex-boyfriend Keita (Yuki Kura) and his current girlfriend Maho (Kasumi Yamaya) to film a rural housing plan where rumors of ghostly activities have been reported.
The three college students lie and explain that they are looking for a place to live. Invited to a welcome party, they learn that the building's residents live with ghosts quite literally. As their leader Kanako (Mariko Tsutsui) explains, that means trying to understand them. Then someone runs over a rail and kills themself.
This would be the time to leave.
So you end up with a death cult meeting up with a girl whose fear of death leads her to be irrational about everything. While she's also quite tiny, she's also a killing machine. And while the film eventually becomes a more standard J-horror movie than the opening may promise and its characters make some of the dumbest decisions ever, at least Hagiwara is great as the lead and it looks interesting.
