While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five-year-old daughter Nana in the obituary section.
Direction
Tsuruta builds dread through mundane objects
Practical Effects
The newspaper itself becomes genuinely terrifying
Director
Norio Tsuruta
Hiroshi Mikami
Hideki Satomi
Noriko Sakai
Ayaka Satomi
Kazuhiro Yamaji
Mitamura Ishi
Maki Horikita
Sayuri Wakakubo
Mayumi Ono
Misato Miyamoto
Kei Yamamoto
Rei Kigata
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Satoko Mikoshiba
Tarō Suwa
Principal (voice)
Daisuke Ban
Vice Principal
Satoru Jitsunashi
Murderer
Hiroshi Takahashi
Man Who Talking to Satomi
Miho Fujima
Yujin Miyamoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of J-horror's 2000s obsession with cursed media—Ringu's videotape, Premonition's newspaper, Kairo's internet.
Based on Jiro Tsunoda's manga 'Yogen'; Tsuruta also directed segments in Ju-On and Tales of Terror.
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