Plot: The Summer 2011 entry in the long-running Honto ni Atta Kowai series. This anthology offers 5 short films, each featuring a ghostly encounter. Be it in a night bus, an abandoned hospital wing, or a jewelry store, ghosts are bound to objects and places and will pop up when they are disturbed.
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December 15, 2024
The OG series of contemporary Japanese horror cinema. All the greats started their horror career working on the first few entries (the early 90s), and Norio Tsuruta returned to co-direct this 2011 summer special. The film is nothing special, but that's because it's stayed true to its roots.
You get five stereotypical Japanese haunt stories, which means ghosts appear out of the shadows and bother the living with their unresolved problems. The film sticks to the clichés it established two decades earlier, they just lost most of their effectiveness by now. It's not a terrible film, just a very generic one. The fact that it's an anthology makes it a little easier to get through though.