Trailer - Kyofu

The official website for Hiroshi Takahashi’s Kyofu (terror, horror, fear, fright - take your pick) has been updated with a trailer for the film.

Takahashi was the screenwriter for Hideo Nakata’s “Ring”, the 1998 film which launched the J-horror wave that had Japanese teenagers biting their fingernails and routinely screaming “yada yada!” for several years afterward. Most would agree that particular wave has been pretty much kaput for a good while now, but don’t tell that to producer Takashige Ichise, who keeps finding ways to get worldwide distribution for the “J-Horror Theater” series of horror films he’s been involved with from the beginning. As the trailer shows, the series includes Masayuki Ochiai’s “Infection”, Norio Tsuruta’s “Premonition”, Takashi Shimizu’s “Reincarnation”, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Retribution”, and Hideo Nakata’s “Kaidan”. Kyofu is intended to be the sixth entry in the series.

The theme of the film has to do with the human brain’s control over our thoughts and actions. As children, sisters Kaori and Miyuki lived with their parents in a cabin deep in the woods. One night, they were awoken by nightmares and sneaked out of bed past midnight only to witness a scary white light emanating from a 16 mm film projector. 17 years later, the now death-obsessed Miyuki (Yuri Nakamura) suddenly disappears. As Kaori (Mina Fujii) tracks down her older sister, she’s reunited with their insane mother Etsuko (Nagisa Katahira), who plans to repeat a forbidden brain experiment which will shake their perception of reality.

“Kyofu” will be released at Theatre Shinjuku and other theaters nation-wide sometime in July. Lionsgate has already picked it up for international distribution.

via Quiet Earth

Editor’s note: dead link removed (http://www.kyofu-movie.jp/)