Joyû-rei (1996)
Aka Don't Look Up
Aka Don't Look Up
75 min - Fantasy | Horror - 2 March 1996 (Japan)
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subs: English Hard Subs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229499/
Director: Hideo Nakata
Writers: Hideo Nakata (story), Hiroshi Takahashi (screenplay)
Produced by
Koji Kobayashi, Shigeki Oosawa, Takenori Sentô, Yasushi Tsuge
Original Music by Akifumi Kawamura
Cinematography by Takeshi Hamada
Film Editing by Shûichi Kakesu
Production Design by Iwao Saitô
Stars:
Yûrei Yanagi as Toshio Murai / the director
Yasuyo Shirashima as Hitomi Kurokawa / the seasoned actress
Kei Ishibashi as Saori Murakami / the debuting actress
Ren Ohsugi as Ootani / the cinematographer (as Ren Oosugi)
Takanori Kikuchi as Masaru Hayama
Hiroyuki Tanaka as Sekikawa (as Sabu)
Reita Serizawa as Sadaoka
Akira Hibino as Actor in the 1971 TV film footage
Hirofumi Kobayashi as Shigeru Mochizuki / the lead actor
Dan Li as Ghost actress
Daisuke Iijima as Police detective
Naomi Kojima as Actress in the 1971 TV film footage
Katsunori Someya as Tomoyasu
Yûken Yoshida as Kasuya
Toshie Negishi as Tokiko Tsutsumi / Hitomi's agent
Don't Look Up is about a film director and his crew who slowly go insane when the film set is haunted by the ghost of an actress who died while filming a TV show in the 1960s.
On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai (Yanagi), is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring actresses, Hitomi Kurokawa and Saori Murakami, play sisters in his film. Murai has a crush on Hitomi (Shiroshima), the seasoned leading actress, and keeps a photo of her by his bed. The younger and less experienced actress, Saori (Ishibashi), is annoying and likes to have recess on the set. The production of the movie is consistently interrupted by strange occurrences and the cast and crew begin to get spooked.
When Murai reviews the shoot, he is shocked to see that scenes from an unreleased (and presumed destroyed) drama from years earlier are intermingled with his negatives. As Murai is watching his footage, the scene is interrupted by a film within a film of an unidentified actress on a movie set, with something that looks like a woman behind her, long black hair, pale skin, out of focus, laughing hysterically.
Murai is fascinated with the freaky footage, as it looks strangely familiar of a pig on the set. The production shuts down for a formal investigation. Murai has only three days left to find out what is going on and finish the shoot.
Murai looks into his own past, and finds a frightening connection between the film he is shooting and the strange footage he has uncovered.
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