How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in this insightful documentary charting the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of Japanese supernatural chillers featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay. From Psychic Vision: Jaganrei (1988) and straight-to-video scary true stories to such key titles as Ring (1998), Pulse (2001) and The Grudge (2002), critics and filmmakers reflect on how the bleak Dystopian visions and unsettling atmospheres infiltrated their way into the world’s shocker consciousness.
Cast
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Unknown
Tom Mes
Unknown
Lindsay Nelson
Unknown
Mari Asato
Unknown
Masayuki Ochiai
Unknown
Takashi Shimizu
Unknown
Norio Tsuruta
Unknown
Rie Ino'o
Unknown
Shinya Tsukamoto
Unknown
George Iida
Unknown
Hiroshi Takahashi
Unknown
Teruyoshi Ishii
Unknown
Chiaki J. Konaka
Unknown
Jasper Sharp
Unknown
Takako Fuji
Unknown