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A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."
Noroi: The Curse (ノロイ, Noroi) is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed and co-written by Kōji Shiraishi. It stars Jin Muraki as Masafumi Kobayashi, a paranormal researcher investigating a series of mysterious events for a documentary.
Aug 20, 2005 · Noroi: The Curse is a Japanese found footage horror film directed by Kōji Shiraishi. The story revolves around paranormal researcher Masafumi Kobayashi, who investigates unexplained phenomena linked to an ancient curse.
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- Kôji Shiraishi
- Jin Muraki
- Some of The Actors Play as Themselves
- Takashige Ichise Also Produced The Grudge Andring
- It Took A Long Time to Reach American Audiences
- The Pigeons Are Symbolic
- Masafumi Kobayashi Never Puts His Camera Down
- The Film Reverses Stereotypes
- A Fan Helped in Creating The Movie's Facebook and IMDb Pages
- Fans Can Stream Noroi: The Curse on Amazon Prime and Shudder
- Director Kôji Shiraishi Drew from Urban Legends For His Other Movies, Too
- Director Kôji Shiraishi Went on to Make More Found-Footage Horror
Noroi sets itself apart from other J-Horror films because of its long duration and sizeable cast. Part of the ensemble comprises several celebrity cameos, some involving actors playing themselves. Marika Matsumoto (actress and the voice behind Rikku in the Final Fantasyvideo games) has a major role as herself; she starts sleepwalking and making noo...
Director Koji Shiraishi garnered some buzz in 2003 when he directed Honto ni atta, a horror anthology starring well-known Japanese actors and pop stars. Noroi: The Curse became a reality two years later, only with the help of Takashige Ichise. Ichise himself was a well-known figure in Japanese horror as he had also producedJu-On: The Grudge, and Ri...
Initially, Noroidid not receive a widespread international following because of a limited domestic release. Takashige Ichise's production company, Oz, suffered from bankruptcy, making it hard to promote or distribute the film to other countries. Kadokawa Pictures USA attempted for an American re-release in 2009 but this company too went bankrupt. F...
If fans observed the film carefully, they will find that pigeons play a recurring role all through the story. In one of the initial supernatural cases of demonic possession in Noroi, viewers see dead pigeons surrounding a lady's house. Even when actress Marika Matsumoto gets possessed by demons, pigeons start flying towards her house's windows and ...
A usual trope in found-footage horror that's added to make the footage look realistic is making the camera all shaky and blurry in scenes of panic, horror, and action. But funnily, protagonist Kobayashi's camera seems to be in a perfect handheld mode always. RELATED: 10 Scariest Found Footage Horror Movies Streaming on Tubi You've Never Seen There ...
Asian and African (and sometimes European) characters in mythical or supernatural films are often labeled as "exotic" or "mystical," and offered roles of sorcerers, gypsies, black magic practitioners, and the like. To add to the stereotypes, it is shown that people from these cultures are the reason behind spells and curses haunting everyone. From ...
The film's limited release meant a less-than-instant promotion strategy for the rest of the world, which would soon praise Noroi for being one of the best Japanese found-footage horror films. Writer Julian Singleton revealed in an essay on Cinapsethat he tried to add to the film's reputation in an interesting way. He wrote: "In earlier years, I cre...
Some die-hard fans have been uploading Noroi: The Curse on YouTube time and again, and as expected, the movie gets blocked or taken down. In the 2010s, Noroi's subtitled copies were sold through third-party DVD websites, which is no longer common practice today. Fans who want to see the film for the first time or rewatch it shouldn't feel dishearte...
Director Kôji Shiraishi seems to have a penchant for drawing from urban legends like he does in Noroi, The Grudge, and Ring. 2009's Teketeke, for instance, heavily relies on narratives about the Japanese urban legend known as the Teke Teke, a schoolgirl that haunts others after her untimely death. The 2007 film Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman, is ba...
Even though Noroi: The Curse is certainly Kôji Shiraishi's magnum opus, the filmmaker went on to direct other horror classics too. Among the most significant of these was 2009's Occult, which again was shot like a horror mockumentary. He has been experimenting and reinterpreting the style time and again. In 2011, he even directed a 'found footage e...
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Jun 1, 2017 · Overview. A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba." Koji Shiraishi. Director, Screenplay, Writer. Naoyuki Yokota. Screenplay.
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