Dark Tales of Japan
Suiyô puremia: sekai saikyô J horâ SP Nihon no kowai yoru
Japan
2004
82 Min
Color
Japanese
Synopsis
An anthology of 5 Japanese horror stories, each from a different director.
Director
Yoshihiro Nakamura
Yoshihiro Nakamura (中村義洋 Nakamura Yoshihiro?) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2005 horror film Būsu or The Booth. He was born on the 25th of August 1970 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. He went to Seijo University Department of Arts and Literature. While there he joined the Film Research Club and started 8 mm film making, and in 1993 won the PIA Film Festival Grand Prix with “Summer Rain Kitchen”. After graduating he worked as assistant director on films with Yoichi Sai, Hideyuki Hirayama and Jūzō Itami. In 1999 he made his debut as an independent director with “Local News”. That year he worked to direct, organise and produce many films that Broadway Co. (ブロードウェイ?) made into the “It’s True! Cursed Films” series. In 2004 together with scriptwriter Ken’ichi Suzuki and editor Tooru Hosokawa he formed the conte unit “Assembly of Little Pigeons”. In 2007 he won the Kaneto Shindō Prize given to the most promising new director by the Japan Film Makers’ Association… read more
Takashi Shimizu
Japanese director Takashi Shimizu’s first experience in film was working part-time at a Kyoto movie theater, while writing scripts in his spare time. Several years of freelancing as an assistant director followed and in 1997 he enrolled at the Film School of Tokyo.
A short film project he did for school attracted the attention of director Kyoshi Kurosawa and screenwriter Hiroshi Takashi. They introduced him to producer Taka Ichise, who had been asked to produce a series of horror stories for a cell phone company. He asked the young director to give him some ideas of what might scare him and this process launched the beginning of the Ju-on horror movie series.
Four Japanese Ju-on movies later, Shimizu directed his first American-produced feature — The Grudge (2004), an English-language version of his hit film, Ju-on: The Grudge — starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as an American in Japan.
Shimizu won a Crystal Skull Award at Screamfest for Ju-on: The Grudge (2003). —tribute… read more
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