As promised, more on “Shinizokonai no Ao”
Posted by Kevin Ouellette on July 11, 2008 8:26pm EDT (4 years ago)
Filed under: Horror, Future releases, Trailer Updates
In order to atone for subjecting my readers to those ridiculous Twilight Syndrome movies and possibly setting the state of J-horror back even further than it already was, I’ve got more info on a horror movie that might actually have the potential to be halfway decent: Shinizokonai no Ao. Based on a book by Otsuichi, the movie stars Kenta Suga as a 6th-grader named Masao who’s hated and abused by his new teacher, Haneda (Yu Shirota). The other students take their cue from Haneda and start to bully Masao themselves. They continue to make his life miserable until a strange girl named Ao (Mitsuki Tanimura) suddenly appears. Ao is covered in scars, missing an eye, and is dressed in a straitjacket. One by one she torments Masao’s classmates until she eventually whispers in his ear, “Kill your teacher… or your life will stay the same.”
Here’s the trailer:
“Shinizokonai no Ao” opens August 30th in Japan.
Official website (Not live yet as of 7/11)
Theater N
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