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MATCHED

MATCHING

By Eiji UCHIDA

KADOKAWA CORPORATION - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World / PROD / FIN

Horror - Pre-Production 2023

“I was just trying to find a new love… What awaited me was... unimaginably horrifying incident…!
An original thriller movie directed by the genius Eiji Uchida, which depicts the unimaginable fear of dating apps, a tool that has now become widespread as a major way to casually meet someone nowadays.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 0 mn
- Director(s)
- Eiji UCHIDA
- Cast
- Tao TSUCHIYA, Daisuke SAKUMA
- Synopsis
- Rinka has been bad at romance and unable to find a boyfriend even after start working. Her colleague, Naomi, invites her to register on a dating app. Shortly after, she is matched with a man named Tomu on the app, and they begin communicating. Rinka soon begins to feel a premonition of love, and finally heads out on her first date. However, the man who shows up there does not look as the same man as his photo... and his suspicious behavior terrifies Rinka, which makes her run away from him in the middle of the date.
  
  At the same time, a series of murders occur of couples who met on matching apps. Rinka becomes reluctant to meet men because of the worst encounters she has ever had, but the sincere response from Kageyama, a programmer at the dating app management company, softens her heart. Then, just as she is easing up, the police visits her and informs her that her former high school teacher with whom she had a crush on and his wife, have been found stabbed to death in a hotel room. Rinka is shaken, and soon unexplainable things begin to happen around Rinka….