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- 1997
- Hideo Nakata
- 91 mins
- 15
Summary
Horror starring Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani and Hiroyuki Sanada. A television journalist and her ex-husband investigate the origins of a video cassette that fatally curses anyone who watches it to be dead after one week.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
David Parkinson
Author Koji Suzuki's bestseller about a cursed video tape that kills all who watch it has spawned franchises in both its native Japan and Hollywood. Director Hideo Nakata was the first to adapt the source material and structures his film like a diary, as a female journalist (Nanako Matsushima) investigates what caused the sudden deaths of her niece and friends. The plot resembles an old-fashioned detective story, but its emphasis on the paranormal recalls both David Cronenberg's brand of body horror and The X-Files. Artfully mixing footage formats to achieve a visual texture commensurate with both the tone of the story and Kinji Kawai's eerie score, Nakata inexorably builds the suspense right up to the chilling climax.
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7.2/10
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Cast
rolenameReiko AsakawaNanako MatsushimaMai TakanoMiki NakataniRyuji TakayamaHiroyuki SanadaTomoko OishiYuko TakeuchiMasami KurahashiHitomi SatoTakashi YamamuraYoichi NumataYoshinoYutaka MatsushigeKôichi AsakawaKatsumi MuramatsuSadako YamamuraOrie IzunoShizuko YamamuraMasako
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rolenameDirectorHideo Nakata
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Theatrical distributor
Arrow
Released on
2019-03-01
Languages
Japanese
Guidance
Contains violence.
Available on
video and DVD
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