film one
NOROI THE CURSE (2005)
original Japanese title: NOROI
a Japanese film with optional English subtitles
screen aspect: widescreen
duration: 115 min. (Uncut / Uncensored version)
director: Koji Shiraishi
starring: Masafumi Kobayashi · Marika Matsumoto · Maria Takagi
plot &
guide : A TV journalist with a fascination for the paranormal decides
to investigate several reports of mysterious incidents dealing with the
supernatural. He then discovers that these cases are somehow related
to an ancient demonic curse.
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film two
OCCULT (2009)
original Japanese title: OKARUTO
* watch director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's cameo appearance too.
a Japanese film with optional English subtitles
screen aspect: fullscreen
duration: 110 min. (Uncut / Uncensored version)
director: Koji Shiraishi
starring: Mika Azuma · Kiyoshi Kurosawa · Takashi Nomura · Kôen Kondô · Shinobu Kuribayashi · Kôji Shiraishi
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plot
& guide : Director Koji Shiraishi plays a documentary filmmaker
investigating a mysterious murder scene at a remote forest vacation
spot, where - as the story goes - a young man went on a killing spree
before jumping off a cliff and vanishing into thin air.*



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film three
CULT (2013)
original Japanese title: KARUTO
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a Japanese film with English subtitles
screen aspect: widescreen
duration: 84 min. (Uncut / Uncensored version)
director: Koji Shiraishi
starring: Yu Abiru · Mari Iriki · Mayuko Iwasa · Ryosuke Miura · Natsuki Okamoto · Sayuri Oyamada
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plot
& guide : Three young, aspiring actresses are hired to help a
documentarian film an exorcism at the house of a young girl and her
mother. Cameras are set up everywhere as the supernatural events start
to unfold. A variety of monks are brought in for exorcisms but the
demonic possession only gets worse as everyone is drawn into an
increasingly dangerous nightmare of of horror.
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