Dollhouse

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Dollhouse

2025

1h 10m

Horror

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Yoshie Suzuki (Masami Nagasawa) and her husband Tadahiko (Seto Koji) lose their 5-year-old daughter Mei. In her grief, Yoshie finds a cute doll that looks just like Mei at an antique market, and the doll gradually regains her strength. However, when Yoshie and Tadahiko have a new daughter, Mai, the couple lose interest in the doll. When Mai grows up to 5 and starts playing with the doll, strange things start happening to the family one after another. Yoshie and her family try to get rid of the doll, but no matter how many times they throw it away, the doll keeps coming back! What is the secret hidden in the doll? And what is the shocking truth that will be revealed?!

Dionar Hidalgo

Algo Más Que Cine

Dollhouse revitalizes J-Horror with haunting elegance — a chilling, emotional tale where grief becomes the true source of terror. Subtle, atmospheric, and deeply human, it reminds us that the scariest ghosts are the ones we create ourselves.

Rated: 8/10

Nov 5, 2025

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Me gusta el cine

I admire what Yaguchi and his team have done here: they've developed a generally emotional and captivating story which, despite its flaws, still manages to present us with several moments of absolute terror. [Full review in Spanish].

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 3, 2025

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James Marsh

South China Morning Post

Packed with jumps, scares, skin-crawling stand-offs and breathless belly laughs, Dollhouse emerges as a delightful surprise, while Nagasawa leads a cast of accomplished veterans in a committed performance of unwavering confusion and abject terror.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 25, 2025

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Joe Lipsett

Bloody Disgusting

For audiences who enjoy their scary doll movies with a healthy dose of sly wit, silliness, and subversion, Dollhouse is worth playing with.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 4, 2025

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Andrew Mack

ScreenAnarchy

A fast-paced movie with many developments, one after the other, giving it a sense of speed that also elevates the development of the story. ... You may guffaw at the screen, but you might have been holding your breath all that time.

Aug 1, 2025

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Christopher Cross

Asynchronous Media

A notable addition to the J-horror canon, balancing cheap thrills with a grief-stricken narrative, Yaguchi delivers a memorably creepy mystery.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jul 15, 2025

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Juan A

Jhorror is trending that has pass, but lately ye wanna make one on today market is body, thank to last year The Subtances. Horror of any kind is already bought by the big streaming company, but lately got chance see this little gem that was receive couple movie fest, so today wanna review Jhorror call the Dollhouse: Is pretty average tale of mother lost her daughter, when she go missing, over year she replace it, with Doll bought in local fleet market, get to attached to it treating her like her daughter, but suddenly she expect that change everything. Five years past, in where her daughter is now five, having a startling life. But when the daughter take out the doll from the box, turning into best friend, ye can say the horror star(more like scare than killing). Taking em to the origin of the doll, where expert try to help em. Well ye know the rest, be frank there were some element like about it, spoiler! They make x ray to doll just discovering it has actual human bone in, so some scary, then just daughter is the only one that can see, her but after that there’s nothing else. When ye give me scary dolls I don’t go with Anastasia but instead 80’s Slasher doll king Chucky. But the Jhorror is another thing, meaning a classic of em was the infamous Dark Water which was good in scare static. So conclude the movie was empty complete, sound people have enough of this genre, so till wanna see something like body horror or what’s YouTube Christ Huskman is premiering in the film market. Would like see something different from Jhorror new or bloodier (Takache Mike is king) So not giving up to soon.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/08/25

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Javier T

Una pelicula con ritmo rapido y con una forma muy buena de transmitir lo que sucede, no abusa de los sustos y se enfoca mas en contar

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/10/25

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Daniel A

I really liked it , the movie has plenty of surprises and isn’t as predictable as most horror films these days. It’s refreshing to see a different culture fighting against evil. Absolutely recommended to watch in theaters.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/09/25

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Shinobu Yaguchi

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Masami Nagasawa

Yoshie Suzuki

Kôji Seto

Tadahiko Suzuki

Tetsushi Tanaka

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Aoi Ikemura

Mai Suzuki

Totoka Honda

Mei Suzuki

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Synopsis

Yoshie Suzuki (Masami Nagasawa) and her husband Tadahiko (Seto Koji) lose their 5-year-old daughter Mei. In her grief, Yoshie finds a cute doll that looks just like Mei at an antique market, and the doll gradually regains her strength. However, when Yoshie and Tadahiko have a new daughter, Mai, the couple lose interest in the doll. When Mai grows up to 5 and starts playing with the doll, strange things start happening to the family one after another. Yoshie and her family try to get rid of the doll, but no matter how many times they throw it away, the doll keeps coming back! What is the secret hidden in the doll? And what is the shocking truth that will be revealed?!

Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Producer: Tomoo Fukatsu, Manabu Endo, Akira Yamano
Screenwriter: Shinobu Yaguchi
Production Co: Toho
Genre: Horror
Original Language: Japanese
Runtime: 1h 10m