Program - Japanese Horror Story

Jaganrei

Jaganrei1988/Japan/49 min./color/digital/Japanese
Directed by Teruyoshi Ishii
Composition and Sound and visual design by Chiaki Konaka
Starring: Kazue Ishiyama, Emi Sato, Masaki Umehara, Terumi Yoshida, Shuichi Honda, Haruo Mizuno

During the filming of promotional video of an idol, bizarre phenomena happened often. TV crew embarked on hunt for the truth of the phenomena. Voice of ghost recorded on a tape of a pop idol's song. Bizarre figure caught on the promotional video. This psychic documentary produced in the late of 1980s came to an issue for its shocking content at that time.

Joyu-rei (English title:Don't Look Up)

Joyu-rei1996/Japan/76 min./color/35mm
Directed by Hideo Nakata
Written by Hiroshi Takahashi
Starring: Yurei Yanagi, Yasuyo Shirashima, Kei Ishibashi, Ren Osugi

A film director, M, found an unprocessed film among him directed films. The film showed the ghost that he saw on TV as a child. From there, bizarre phenomena started to happen around him. It based on its writer, Hiroshi Takahashi's experience that he saw a ghost film on TV when he was a child. This is Hideo Nakata's debut film who directed "Ring".

Ring

Ring1998/Japan/95 min./color/35mm/Japanese
Directed by Hideo Nakata
Original written by Koji Suzuki
Written by Hiroshi Takahashi
Produced by Takasige Ichise
Music by Kenji Kawai
Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani, Yuko Takeuchi, Yutaka Matushige, Yurei Yanagi

Somewhere down the line, an execratory video has been rumored. It is said that who watched the video would die in a week. A TV director who gathered information about the video saw it. Is there a way to break the curse? The classic of Japanese horror movie is going to revival with great sound system!

ko-rei

ko-rei1999/Japan/97 min./color/35mm/Japanese
Directed and written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Written by Tetsuya Oishi
Original written by Mark McShane
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Jun Fubuki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kitaro, Ittoku Kishibe, Hikari Ishida, Sho Aikawa

A wife can see ghosts and her husband recognizes that. They sent an ordinary life without she can see ghosts, but their life turned to be horror by sadly accident. This film is highly praised for realistic portrayal of ghost by people that are able to see ghosts. It is the definitive edition of ghost movie.

Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro

Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro1968/Japan/84 min./color/35mm/Japanese
Directed by Hajime Sato
Writen by Susumu Takaku, Kyuzo Kobayashi
Music by Shunsuke Kikuchi
Starring: Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Sato, MAsaya Takahashi, Hideo Ko, Nobuo Kaneko, Kazuo Kato, Hiroyki Nishimoto, Norihiko Yamamoto, Kathy Horan

A hijacked jetliner encountered a flying saucer and crashed in the mountains. The passengers seemed to survive, but one of the passengers' body was taken over by creature of the flying saucer and became a vampire to attack others. This danger from space spreads to the world as a global disaster.

Kaima Riku-wo Yuku

Kaima Riku-wo Yuku1950/Japan/53 min./Black and White/35mm/Japanese
Directed by Masanori Igayama
Original written by Sadao Imamura
Written by Rokuro Matsuzaki
Narrated by Musei Tokugawa

There is a tradition that octopuses go ashore since early times. This is an amazing documentary film that camera caught the way which an octopus that went ashore returned to the native sea. There were many dangers, for example, a spider, a mantis, a snake and moray eel, in it's way.

Oraa Kappa-da

Oraa Kappa-da1968/Japan/30 min./color/16mm/Japanese
Produced and special effects by Norifumi Ohashi
Directed and written by Hajime Yatsuka
Produced by Nichibei Tokusatsu Eiga
Starring: Pepe Hozumi, Ushio Akashi, Kotaro Nire

Fuminori Ohashi of Nichibei Tokusatsu Co., Ltd. is known as a cast of "Yo-jin-bo" directed by Akira Kurosawa but also he was flourished as a modeling artist. This film produced as a pilot film to market to TV station but it went off the air and became phantasmal film.

Kuki-no Nakunaru-hi

Kuki-no Nakunaru-hi1949/Japan/51 min./Black and White/35mm/Japanese
Original written by Masaharu Iwakura
Directed by Sueo Ito
Starring: Taizo Fukami, Taeko Kitajima, Tokue Hanasawa, Hisako Hara, Jido-Gekidan "Ginga-za"
*The collection of National Film Center

In 1910, air on the earth would be removed during five minutes when the day comet Halley approaches! People were afraid that rumor and rushed to buy rubber to bear off the five minutes. At that time, people got panics not only in Japan but also all over the world. This film depicts that condition realistically with special effects.

Kaidan Semushi-Otoko (English title: House of Terrors)

Kaidan Semushi-Otoko1965/Japan/81 min./Black and White/35mm/Japanese
Directed by Hajime Sato
Written by Hajime Takaiwa
Cinematography: Shoei Nishikawa
Starring: Ko Nishimura, Yuko Kusunoki, Kazuo Kitamura, Yoko Hayama, Keiko Yumi, Kazuo Kato, Masumi Harukawa, (Narrater: Toru Ohira)

The company owner who died suddenly possessed a mysterious foreign residence. His wife found it when she disposed his property and people attracted to the foreign residence died a bizarre death. Something hid in the residence… Bizarre composition and camera works make you insecurity.