After a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara turns to a mysterious girl who holds the key to the dark mystery.
Direction
Furusawa weaponizes negative space and dead silence.
Costume
Mei's eyepatch and uniform = instant cosplay legend.
Practical Effects
That doll shop will haunt your peripheral vision forever.
Director
Takeshi Furusawa
Ai Hashimoto
Mei Misaki
Kento Yamazaki
Koichi Sakakibara
Ai Kato
Reiko Mikami
Yoshihiko Hakamada
Tatsuji Chibiki
Mika Akizuki
Izumi Akazawa
Kai Inowaki
Yuya Mochizuki
Amane Okayama
Yu Yamada
Kiyotaka Uji
Hayato Teshigawara
Maya Okano
Yukari Sakuragi
Miho Tsumiki
Yukiyo ' Kirika' Misaki
Bokuzo Masana
Professor Kubodera
Masaki Miura
Katsumi Matsunaga
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Yukito Ayatsuji's 2009 novel that helped revive Japanese 'honkaku' mystery traditions in horror.
The anime adaptation's iconic umbrella scene was deemed too expensive to replicate; the film substitutes equally traumatic imagery.
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