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Stigmatized Properties is a Japanese horror movie. It was released in 2020 in Japan. The main character is Yamame. He is a comedian in Osaka, Japan.

He has a partner as a comedian. However, they are not popular at all although they have been working for 10 years. So, they decide to disband.

One day, Yamame tries to get jobs and be popular by living in stigmatized properties. He becomes involved in psychic phenomena gradually with a former comedy partner and a woman who likes Yamame... I love this film because the depictions of psychic phenomena and the background of the stigmatized properties are also well visualized. The way Yamame acts against our intentions immerses us in the film. And the actress who plays the woman who likes Yamame is so pretty. I watched this film with my friend, and he became a fan of her as well. You will turn your attention to what will happen to her relationship with Yamame in the end. People who like horror movies should watch this! However, I do not recommend this film to people who live alone...because the film is based on a true story.

Scary? At times, yes, but that's probably as far as the complements can go. Kamenashi and his co-casts doesn't help with their subpar acting and over the top expressions, but the heart of the problem is that the film simply doesn't have a spine. Not much connects the four mini-stories except for the superficial romance. No times is taken to formally introduce the main antagonist, and that final encounter with him is simply dumbfounding and awkward, and does nothing to help the overall flow of them film except to end the tragedy of a movie.