Trapped in 2:15 PM forever — and she's not even the only ghost in town.
Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. When she comes to she is at home. When she ventures outside, the city is deserted and she knows something is deeply wrong. Each day repeats; she wakes up at 2:15 in the afternoon. Gradually things start change, the phone rings, and she finds that she is not alone...
Cinematography
Empty Tokyo streets that haunt you with negative space.
Acting
Riho Makise's silent unraveling — grief without histrionics.
Direction
Hirayama's restraint: horror through mundanity, never spectacle.
Director
Hideyuki Hirayama
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Turn (2001) arrived during Japan's 'J-horror' boom but rejected its conventions — no vengeful spirits, just quiet urban alienation that predicted pandemic-era isolation films.
Director Hirayama insisted on shooting during actual empty hours (dawn, holidays) rather than clearing streets — the eerie authenticity of deserted Tokyo is documentary, not digital.
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