15th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival 191

HOME Program J-Horror The Last Chapter

How did Japanese horror films turn a new leaf and transform in the traditional history of film? Let’s take a genealogical look into Japanese horror films from some of the best including The Ring and Don’t Look Up by Nobuo Nakagawa to Die! Filmmakers, Die! which could be categorized as Japanese Meta-Horror.

Kenpei to Yurei

NAKAGAWA Nobuo | Japan | 1958 | 75 Min | Feature/Fiction

Sergeant Dazawa and Akiko get married despite second lieutenant Namizima’s jealousy. Confidential documents are stolen from the military police and the sergeant is shot to death after being framed as the suspect by the second lieutenant. Private Dazawa, the sergeant’s brother, and Akiko, who got raped swear to get revenge. Meanwhile, the ..

A Wicked Woman

NAKAGAWA Nobuo | Japan | 1958 | 74 Min | Feature/Fiction

Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into becoming the mistress of and procurer for a vice boss. After the deaths of her second husband and daughter, Den moves to Yokohama. There she runs a casino for the vice boss. Her remorseful first hu..

Don"t Look Up

NAKATA Hideo | Japan | 1996 | 75 Min | Feature/Fiction

Strange reel of a film that has the blurry image of a woman can be seen behind the female lead is found at the set of movie. Afterwards, strange things begin to occur and one of the actresses even falls to her death in the middle of a shoot. Soon, the director learns from an article that the woman of the film fell to her death in the same studio 20 y..

The Ring

NAKATA Hideo | Japan | 1999 | 95 Min | Feature/Fiction

Reiko Asakawa is researching into a "Cursed Video" when her niece Tomoko dies of sudden heart failure with an unnaturally horrified expression on her face. She finds out that some of Tomoko"s friends, who had been on a holiday with Tomoko, had died on exactly the same night. Reiko goes to the cabin where the teens had stayed and finds ..

Kyofu

TAKAHASHI Hiroshi | Japan | 2010 | 94 Min | Feature/Fiction

Etsuko and her husband who are neurologists, watch a shocking video of a neuroscience experiment that was conducted in Manchuria before the war. 17 years later, Etsuko who has been conducting illegal neuroscience experiments decides to use her daughter Miyuki, who was part of an unsuccessful attempt at mass suicide, as a subject. An exploration of ho..

Die! Filmmakers, Die!

SHINOZAKI Makoto | Japan | 2011 | 72 Min | Feature/Fiction

Shimazaki, who is a teacher at a film school and film director, criticizes the works of a student at the preview of their graduation project. However, he is driven into a frenzy when the audience denounces his film, and massacres 42 people on the spot. 4 years later, Natsuka, who was a high school student at that time, decides to film the ultimate ho..

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