SeriesPsychological Survival

Marks' Mountain2010

Name: Marks' Mountain
Genre: Psychological, Survival
Released: 2010-10-17
Rating: 6.5

Created by Toshiyuki Mizutani, Kosuke Suzuki

6.5

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IMDb 7.1TMDB 8.0

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Year

2010

Seasons

Network

WOWOW Prime

Status

Ended

The premise

20 years ago a half-frozen boy was rescuded in the mountains after his parents apparent sucide. He gets released from a mental institution and his girlfriend notices him talking about a dark mountain shadow. Meanwhile a murder happens in a residential area in Tokyo. Assistant Inspector Goda Yuichiro takes on the investigation. Soon an official of the Ministery of Justice gets murdered in a similar fashion pointing towards a serial killer. Yet, Goda receives a strange order from above: he's not to further investigate in this direction. He senses a huge mystery behind the case and starts chasing after the psychopath killer called Marks. Somehow a journalist's research about a corrupt construction magnate and another unsolved murder that happend in the mountains 13 years ago are also linked to the case.

Horror Vault's take

Two decades after a boy was pulled half-dead from a snow-covered mountain under murky circumstances, a string of eerily connected murders begins to surface in Tokyo — and a determined assistant inspector finds himself stonewalled by the very system meant to deliver justice. At the centre of it all is a shadowy figure known only as Marks, whose psychological imprint stretches across years and victims. As threads linking a corrupt construction magnate, a cold mountain killing, and a man freshly released from a psychiatric facility begin to converge, Inspector Goda realises the conspiracy runs far deeper than a simple homicide case. This Japanese crime thriller builds its dread methodically, weaving trauma, memory, and institutional rot into a gripping mystery.

Content: Murder, Depictions Of Mental Illness, Suicide Themes, Violence