The official website for Shosuke Murakami’s mobile phone novel adaptation, Threads of Destiny (Akai Ito) now features two new video clips: For some more behind the scenes footage of Nao Minamisawa shooting the first teaser, click here. For the 2nd teaser, click here. As I posted here a few weeks ago, the story will be split between a Fuji TV drama and this movie which will act as the middle part of the story. Additional cast for the second half of TV drama were announced a few days ago. New additions include Sayuri Iwata as Haruna, Hiroshi Yazaki as Yuya, Kasumi Suzuki as Yuuri, and Ryo Tajima as Mitsu.

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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.”

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A sixth-grader named Masao (Kenta Suga) constantly gets abused by his new teacher (Yu Shirota) and bullied by his classmates. One day a pale blue girl covered in scars (Mitsuki Tanimura) shows up, and only he can see her. Only he can see her until she starts terrorizing his classmates.

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Just a few days after the trailer for Twilight Syndrome: Dead Cruise horrified movie fans (for all the wrong reasons), we now have the trailer for Twilight Syndrome: Dead Go Round. This time around the setting is an amusement park in a remote country town. 7 teens gather for the chance to play a live-action horror game refereed by a freaky-ass clown. What they don’t realize, however, is that “game over” is followed by their own swift and violent deaths. Deadly traps are set up around the perimeter of the park, and the only way to escape alive is to win.

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7 teens gather at a remote amusement park for a special game run by a creepy-looking clown. But what they don’t realize is that the penalty for losing is death.

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