Shutter

Director: Masayuki Ochiai

Overview

Infection director Masayuki Ochiai takes the helm for this remake of the 2004 horror hit from Thailand concerning a photographer and his girlfriend who are involved in a tragic auto accident, and subsequently begin to notice ghostly figures in the backgrounds of their pictures. Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor star in this supernatural frightener.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/13/2011
UPC:	0024543523772
Original Release:	2008
Rating:	R
Source:	20th Century Fox
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:25:00
Sales rank:	50,146

Special Features

A Ghost in the Lens Featurette; ; A History of Spirit Photography Featurette; ; cc

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Joshua Jackson	Ben
Rachael Taylor	Jane
Megumi Okina	Megumi
David Denman	Bruno
John Hensley	Adam
Maya Hazen	Seiko
James Kyson Lee	Ritsuo
Yoshiko Miyazaki	Akiko
Kei Yamamoto	Murase
Daisy Betts	Natasha
Adrienne Pickering	Megan
Pascal Morineau	Wedding Photographer
Masaki Ota	Police Officer
Hederu Tatsuo	Police Officer
Eri Otoguro	Yoko
Rina Matsuki	TGK Receptionist
Tomotaka Kanzaki	Client
Michiyo Kaneko	Passenger on Train
Jun Yakushiji	Client
Emi Tamura	Emi
Polina Kononova	Studio Model
Yulia Ryzhova	Studio Model
Mika Kinose	Office Lady
Masakazu Nagakura	Pachinko Parlor Employee
Shinji Furukawa	Pachinko Parlor Customer
Maria Takagi	Waitress at Japanese Restaurant
Alessandra	Model
Katrina B.	Model
Tanya	Model
Takao Toji	Tokyo Doctor
Shizuka Fujimoto	Tokyo Exam Room Nurse
Yutaka Mishima	Ghost Magazine Layout Designer
Maiko Asano	Mother on Train
Rei Sato	Boy on Train
Homare Hasegawa	Passenger on Train
Kei Hirosawa	Passenger on Train
Koichi Kase	Passenger on Train
Yasuke Kawarada	Passenger on Train
Ayuko Koyama	Passenger on Train
Konomi Moriyama	Passenger on Train
Akira Sato	Passenger on Train
Miyako Yamaguchi	Passenger on Train
Runa Kozuka	Girl in Park
Natsuki	TGK Female Staff
Gen Takatsuka	Monk
Natalia Tsvetkova	Brooklyn Nurse
Asya	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Graziela	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Ami Fujimoto	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Miki Hirono	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Ingrid	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Ananda	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Emiko Kondo	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Liana	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Tsukasa Minami	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Asami Momose	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Nadia	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Nadiya	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Natsue Orikawa	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Zoya	Model in Adam's Photo Box
Julia G.	Model in Headshot
Ira M.	Model in Headshot
Natalia Si	Model in Headshot
Akihiko Ando	Restaurant Manager
Erik	Adam Double
Andrew Durdey	Ben Double
Irina Izhanova	Stand-In
Anna Zorina	Stand-In
Mark Chinnery	Ben Double
Chie Yokomizo	Megumi Double
Olga Alex	Model in Headshot
Shiho Okamoto	Megumi Double
Natalia Mokienko	Jane Double
Yutaka Satoh	Double Driver
Akihiro Shimomura	Megumi's Father
Keisuke Nakajima	Double Driver
Albert Smith	Ben Double
Natalia Silkina	Jane Double
Yulia Kozyritskaya	Jane Double
Sho Nishino	Megumi Double
Yutaka Someya	Stand-In
Shigeru Kurihara	Ritsuo Double
Nathan Barr	Composer

Technical Credits

Luke Dawson

Luke Dawson	Screenwriter
Doug Davison	Producer
Takashige Ichise	Producer
Roy Lee	Producer
Gloria Fan	Executive Producer
Sonny Mallhi	Executive Producer
Arnon Milchan	Executive Producer
David Betancourt	Sound Effects
James Bolt	Sound Effects,Sound Mixer
Ronny Cox	Sound Effects
Christian Kaplan	Casting
Atsuko Murata	Special Effects
Shunsuke Gondo	Stunts
Katsuyuki Yanagisawa	Key Grip
Donna Isaacson	Casting
Nami Hanada	Stunts
Shinji Noro	Stunts
Masato Komatsu	Sound Mixer
Chuck Michael	Sound/Sound Designer

Scene Index

Disc #1, Side A -- Shutter
1. Main Titles/ In Love [4:02]
2. The Girl in the Road [1:59]
3. Mystery Victim [2:45]
4. Settling in [3:33]
5. Visions [3:22]
6. Spirit Photos [5:00]
7. Unfinished Business [4:52]
8. Darkroom Splash [1:24]
9. Subway Apparition [4:41]
10. Believing [5:08]
11. Consultation [2:49]
12. Playing Detective [5:01]
13. The Impossible [1:58]
14. Who Is She? [3:32]
15. Photo Test [3:33]
16. Seeing the Unseen [1:51]
17. Finding Megumi [5:04]
18. Night Terrors [6:24]
19. Cremation [1:36]
20. Message From Beyond [4:33]
21. Ben's Story [2:51]
22. Heeding the Warning [1:22]
23. A Heavy Load [2:35]
24. Together Always/End Titles [4:56]
Disc #1, Side B -- Shutter
1. Main Titles/ In Love [4:02]
2. The Girl in the Road [1:59]
3. Mystery Victim [2:45]
4. Settling in [3:33]
5. Visions [3:22]
6. Spirit Photos [5:00]
7. Unfinished Business [4:52]
8. Darkroom Splash [1:24]
9. Subway Apparition [4:41]
10. Believing [5:08]
11. Consultation [2:49]
12. Playing Detective [5:01]
13. The Impossible [1:58]
14. Who Is She? [3:32]
15. Photo Test [3:33]
16. Seeing the Unseen [1:51]
17. Finding Megumi [5:04]
18. Night Terrors [6:24]
19. Cremation [1:36]
20. Message From Beyond [4:33]
21. Ben's Story [2:51]
22. Heeding the Warning [1:22]
23. A Heavy Load [2:35]
24. Together Always/End Titles [4:56]

Menu

Disc #1, Side A -- Shutter
Play
Language Selection
Audio
English 5.1 Dolby Surround
Spanish Dolby Surround
French Dolby Surround
Subtitles
English
Spanish
Subtitles: None
Scene Selection
Special Features
A Ghost in the Lens
Trailer Pathology
Disc #1, Side B -- Shutter
Play
Language Selection
Audio
English 5.1 Dolby Surround
Spanish Dolby Surround
French Dolby Surround
Subtitles
English
Spanish
Subtitles: None
Scene Selection
Special Features
A Ghost in the Lens
Trailer Pathology

Editorial Reviews

Ghostly images appearing in pictures are nothing new. Neither are long-haired, sepulchral Japanese women dressed in white, moving slowly and looking ominous (see The Grudge). Yet Masayuki Ochiai's Shutter repackages these tired horror tropes into something effectively chilling, despite the fact that it isn't the least bit new or inventive. Shutter feels like the latest in a trend that's been bled dry, namely, Hollywood remaking Japanese horror movies -- yet it's actually an update of a Thai film, directed by a Japanese director, set in Japan and featuring American actors. This idiom is certainly familiar enough, but setting Shutter apart is its relatively clean and straightforward script. Neither huge logical leaps nor clarifications of who's who/what's happening, are necessary to wade through its brisk 85 minutes, which leaves Ochiai free to concentrate on his eerie set pieces. Jaded viewers may find themselves embarrassed to be producing such a reaction, considering Shutter's massive debt to other films, but the fact remains -- these fleeting images in the "spirit photos" do leave a viewer feeling disquieted, and sometimes downright spooked. When the spirit, a lonely girl who stalked her unrequited love (Joshua Jackson), manifests herself physically, it's a bit more clearly recognizable as a hackneyed theft from the Grudge and Ring movies. But even if he isn't reinventing the wheel, Ochiai utilizes his familiar images as well as possible given our familiarity with them -- and thereby underscores what made them unsettling in the first place. Shutter will never be confused for anything more than an anonymous genre film with a generic title, but it's slightly less anonymous and generic than it could have been, which makes it worth recommending on some level -- especially relative to the other anonymous and generic options out there.