23 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestA washed up horror film director named Kôji Kuroishi (played by Kôji Shiraishi) and his assistant director named Miho Ichikawa visit a house deep in wooded mountains to film a movie. Once arrived, they meet a mentally deranged woman named Maria Miyoshi who proclaims she's a fan of Kuroishi's works. The woman pleads that she's experienced the same things as documented in Kuroishi's works. Unexplainable phenomena quickly begin to happen, so Kuroishi sets out to document these experiences and turn them into a film, together with the help of a 'super volunteer' named Shôhei Uno and a handsome psychic medium named Nanashi.
Direction
Shiraishi playing himself blurs reality until you're paranoid too
Writing
Self-aware script mocks its own genre while slowly destroying it
Creator
Koji Shiraishi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shiraishi literally pioneered the 'Noroi' style of Japanese found-footage horror in the 2000s; this is his career-long ouroboros.
The super volunteer character 'Eno' is named after real Japanese paranormal YouTuber Shohei Uno, who plays himself.
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