Tag: Kôji Shiraishi

Kôji Shiraishi’s “Sadako vs. Kayako” (2016)

Horror Channel FrightFest 2016 Review

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#POCtober: WATCH Dark Tales of Japan (日本のこわい夜)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdIjzRtA3jo
Dark Tales of Japan (Nihon no Kowai Yoru) is a 2004 made-for-TV film anthology of five short horror stories, directed by five notable Japanese film directors: Yoshihiro Nakamura, Norio Tsuruta, Kōji Shiraishi, Takashi Shimizu and Masayuki Ochiai.

#POCtober: Watch Kôji Shiraishi’s “The Curse” (ノロイ Noroi)

A true cut above most found footage horror, Kôji Shiraishi’s 2005 opus “The Curse” is unique for its excellent writing and acting. Shiraishi’s unironic embrace of documentary style lends itself easily to a horror narrative that is both lengthy and complex. The result is a deceptively workmanlike approach where the bizarre and supernatural are layered into the ordinary using moments, glimpses into weirdness, all deftly laid together. In a word: Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilHmpETJgZ0

#POCtober: If you want blood (you’ve got it): an interview with Koji Shiraishi

As an aside, this kind of thing is too much for the Dark Matter crew.

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Photo by Benjamin Parks

#POCtober: “Noroi: The Curse” (2005)

Directed by Kôji Shiraishi
The Curse (ノロイ) is a “found footage” J horror film shot as a documentary about a paranormal investigative journalist named Masafumi Kobayashi (Jin Muraki). We follow Kobayashi through number of seemingly unrelated paranormal cases that son add up to the film’s over-arching mystery of the investigator’s disappearance.

Watch Full Movie Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilHmpETJgZ0