Shutter
For photographer Ben and his new wife Jane, his new assignment a lucrative fashion shoot in Tokyo was supposed to be a kind of working honeymoon. With this exotic professional opportunity and the limitless possibilities of a new marriage, Ben and Jane arrive in Japan.
But as they make their way on a mountain road leading to Mt. Fuji, their new life together comes to, literally, a crashing halt. Their car smashes into a woman standing in the middle of the road, who has materialized out of nowhere. Upon regaining consciousness after the accident, Ben and Jane cannot find any trace of the girl Jane believes she hit with the car. Shaken by the accident and by the girl’s disappearance, Ben and Jane arrive in Tokyo, where Ben begins his glamorous assignment.
Having worked in Japan before and fluent in the language, Ben is comfortable there, and he eagerly reunites with old friends and colleagues. Jane, a newcomer to the city, feels very much like a stranger in a strange land as she makes tentative, unsettling forays through the city. Ben, meanwhile, has discovered mysterious white blurs eerily evocative of a human form that have materialized on an entire day’s work from the expensive photo shoot. Jane’s concerns escalate as she believes the blurs in Ben’s photos are the dead girl from the road, who is now seeking vengeance for them leaving her to die.
Directed by
Masayuki Ochiai
Cast
Rachel Taylor - Jane Shaw
Joshua Jackson - Benjamin Shaw
David Denman - Bruno
James Kyson Lee - Ritsuo
Maya Hazen - Seiko
John Hensley - Adam
Megumi Okina - Megumi
Yoshiko Miyazaki - Akiko
Kei Yamamoto - Murase
Daisy Betts - Natasha
Adrienne Pickering - Megan
Pascal Morineau - Wedding Photographer
Masaki Ota - Police Officer
Heideru Tatsuo - Police Officer
Eri Otoguro - Yoko
Production Co.
Vertigo Entertainment
New Regency Productions
OZLA Pictures Inc.
Monarchy Enterprises
Produced by
Roy Lee
Paiboon Damrongchaitham
Richard Guay
Sonny Mallhi
Boosaba Daoreong
Gloria Fan
Studio
20th Century Fox
Writer
Luke Dawson
Music
Nathan Barr
