Month: November 2024

Akira Nutahara (Atsuro Watabe) has arrived on Shikoku island to be a schoolteacher. He has fallen in love with Miki (Yûki Amami), an older woman and paper maker who cares for an urn that is said to carry Inugami, a forest wolf spirit. Her family is set to commemorate the 900 Year Rites in which […]

As he worked on a documentary he called The Curse, paranormal expert Masafumi Kobayashi (Jin Muraki) disappeared, leaving behind his burned home and his dead wife Keiko (Miyako Hanai). All that is left is the movie he was making. The Curse concerns Junko Ishii (Tomono Kuga), a woman whose apartment created sounds of crying children. […]

Directed by Takashi Komatsu and written by Hiroshi Hashimoto based on the book by Osamu Sôda, Persona starts when a student named Danda comes back to school after weeks away. Bullying has kept him from class but now his face hides behind a mask. Soon, many of his fellow oppressed students start to cover their faces, […]

This is based on the Japanese urban legend known as Kuchisake-onna. She was a woman who missed her samurai husband while he was away at war and began to sleep with other men. When he returned and learned of how she was stepping beyond the bounds of their marriage, he sliced her face. She came […]

Hinako Myoujin (Yui Natsukawa) has come back to her island home of Shikoku from Tokyo. There, she discovers that her friend Sayori Hiura (Chiaki Kuriyama, Gogo Yubari!) has died and that the girl’s mother, Shinto priestess Teruko (Toshie Negishi), has become lost in her grief. Sayori’s high school boyfriend Fumiya (Michitaka Tsutsui) has always felt […]

Directed by Toshiyuki Mizutani, who wrote it with Mugita Kinosita, this takes place after the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake, which saw at least 5,000 deaths. Yukari (Yoshino Kimura) has come to the city of Kobe to help with the rescue efforts. As a psychic, Yukari can feel the thoughts of others. This isn’t always good, […]

Luo Yihu (Hwang Jang-Lee), the master of the Northern Legs Clan, has killed the master — Mr. Zhang (Yen Shi-Kwan) — of two young students — He Jiayu (Wong Yu) and Wu Dezhi (Chiang Kam) before letting them know that they’re next. They’re also idiots who would rather argue and prank one another than get […]