Haze
October 30, 2025
6:00pm | SIFF Film Center
Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema
Twenty years ago, irreverent Japanese genre wizard Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man) wrote, directed, and starred in the truly frightening, claustrophobic experience known as Haze.
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of his surroundings as he tries to edge his way towards freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.
- Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
- Principal Cast: Shinya Tsukamoto
- Country: Japan
- Year: 2005
- Running Time: 49 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Has Subtitles: Yes