Retribution (2006 film)

Retribution (叫, Sakebi) is a 2006 Japanese

Plot

Yoshioka, an experienced detective, investigates the murder of an unknown woman in a red dress. She was drowned on the Tokyo waterfront, but an autopsy reveals that her stomach is full of seawater. Moreover, all the clues he finds relate to himself: A button found at the murder scene matches one that is missing from his own coat, and fingerprints found match his own. Yoshioka realizes that the only viable suspect is himself; but he doesn't remember a thing.

A ghost in a red dress soon starts appearing to him. As these apparitions become more intense and bizarre, similar murders occur with people killing loved ones for small infractions. All the perpetrators are found by Yoshioka as he searches for clues about the original murder. Eventually the drowned woman is identified. Yoshioka visits her parents, only to find she had a boyfriend who was extorting her parents, who happens to visit the house at the same time. He quickly confesses to the crime.

Yoshioka is visited by the ghost again who reveals that she is not the murdered woman, but a ghost of a woman whom he saw in the window of an

• Kōji Yakusho
  – Noboru Yoshioka
• Manami Konishi – Harue Nimura
• Riona Hazuki – F18
• Tsuyoshi Ihara – Toru Miyaji
• Joe Odagiri – Dr. Takagi
• Ryo Kase - Sailor
• Hiroyuki Hirayama – Young detective Sakurai
• Ikuji Nakamura - Shoichi Sakuma
• Kaoru Okunuki - Miyuki Yabe
• Hironobu Nomura - Seiji Onoda

Release

The film was released as part of producer Takashige Ichise's J-Horror Theater series along with Infection, Premonition, and Reincarnation, among others.^[1]

Reception

Adam DiLeo of

As the ghost of the film is seeking revenge from past events of which every protagonist is apparently responsible, the horror in Retribution has been seen by some as expressing some kind of social illness and collective guilt in our contemporary world.^[4][5]

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