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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 .
Kōji Shiraishi (白石 晃士, Shiraishi Kōji, born June 1, 1973) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor.He is primarily known for directing Japanese horror films, including Noroi: The Curse (2005), Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007), Occult, Teketeke (both 2009), Cult (2013), and Sadako vs. Kayako (2016).
In 2005, a man named Ken Matsuki killed two people and injured a third in a mass stabbing before jumping off a cliff; his body was never found. Three years later, a documentary film crew led by Koji Shiraishi began a project chronicling the aftermath of the incident and interviewing survivors.
The film's theme song is "Noroi no Shananana" (呪いのシャ・ナ・ナ・ナ) by the heavy metal band Seikima-II. It was released as part of a double A-side single on June 15, 2016, which also included an English-language version of the song.
My Dear, Curse-Casting Vampiress (Japanese: 僕の呪いの吸血姫, Hepburn: Boku no Noroi no Kyūketsuki) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Chisaki Kanai. It has been serialized in Square Enix 's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Gangan since July 2021.
Ju-On: The Curse was released on home video on February 11, 2000. [1] [2] AllMovie called it a "surprisingly effective low-budget horror video from Japan", writing, "while the plot never quite comes together—it's haphazard and confusing—the movie succeeds because of its unnervingly creepy atmosphere and consistently mournful and unsettling ...
Thirty-five years later, horror movie director Ikuo Matsumura decides to make a film about the massacre. As the shoot draws near, Nagisa Sugiura, the actress set to star as Omori's daughter Chisato, is haunted by the ghosts of the victims. She begins hallucinating and is plagued by nightmares of the killings. She discovers an old film camera ...
The website's consensus reads: "For a werewolf movie, The Cursed is frustratingly lacking in killer instinct—but its intriguing additions to well-worn mythology add some necessary bite." [ 13 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 62 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews ...