FILMS ARCHIVES 2023

2023/ Length: 86min/Horror/ Release Date: Sep 2023
Kudo is a director at a film production company that’s on the verge of bankruptcy after the coronavirus lockdowns. Then one day, someone sends him a video. The video was filmed by three people who are exploring an abandoned building. They find what looks like an altar, and one of them kicks it over… only to hear what sounds like a crying baby. They sense a presence and turn to look at it, and see a woman covered in what looks like red blood, standing and glaring at them.
Kudo sees this as his chance to turn his career around, and decides to make a movie out of the video. He calls his old co-worker Ichikawa and heads to the abandoned building with a spirit medium, and the people who made the original video, in tow…
©2023 "Terror World: KOWASUGI!" Production Committee

2023/ Length: TBA/Horror/ Release Date: Oct 2023
College student Sakura Uchida (Rikka Ihara) is shy and has trouble fitting in with her class. Her childhood friend and fellow student Satoshi Manaka (Taiyu Fujiwara) thinks that a change of scenery is just what she needs to feel better, and along with another childhood friend, Nozomi Hanamura(Shiori Akita), he invites her to come work a part-time job at a resort inn on an island.
The inn is normally run by a husband-and-wife couple, along with a part-timer named Iwasaki. But the husband, Kensuke, (Mamoru Tsubouchi), hurt his leg, and hired the three as extra help. Tourist season has yet to begin, and the three of them are able to have plenty of time to enjoy the resort. Sakura gradually begins to relax and recover from her depression. But then one night, she sees the wife, Makiko (Hinako Saeki) secretly carrying food down the hallway in the middle of the night, and she feels a strange sense of unease.Several days later at breakfast, Iwasaki, the part-timer, suggests that the three of them try searching for the secret door that exists somewhere in the inn.This invitation is the beginning of a terror from which there is no coming back...
©2023 "Nightmare Resort" Film Partners

2023/ Length: 74min/ Horror/ Release Date: Jul 2023
College girls Ryoko and Akane are on their way back from a hike when they get lost in the mountains. They finally make it to a bus stop, but there’s no sign of a bus coming. To make matters worse, Ryoko’s leg is hurt, and Akane’s boyfriend is at a party and can’t come to get them. The two decide that if they want to make it back, they’ll have to hitchhike. At first it seems hopeless to find someone who’ll give them a ride this deep in the mountains, but fortunately, an RV stops for them.
A man dressed as a cowboy gets out of the RV and introduces himself as George. He gladly offers to give them a ride. Inside the RV, they find that George’s family is traveling with him. But something seems strange…
Meanwhile, Ken, a boy who’s sick of his overprotective parents, is also hitchhiking through the same mountain with his buddy Kazunari…
©2023 "Hitchhike" partners

2023/Length: 120min/Drama/ Release Date: May 2023
Yoriko draws fine ripples in the sand every morning as she tends to the Zen garden in her yard, which seems incongruous with her modern house in its quiet residential area. Yoriko is devoted to a cult-like religion and spends her days in prayer and study.
One day, her husband Osamu, who abandoned his family over 10 years ago, comes back. His return is like a rock that makes ripples on the quiet surface of her life.
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2023/ Length: 117min/Drama, Based on novel / Release Date: February 2023
My high school friend Yusuke and I found out one day that Mori, a mutual friend, had committed suicide. I’d found a job after graduating, but my boss hated me. The only way I could make it through the day was by posting depressing thoughts on social media. Yusuke lived for the moment, and didn’t care about anything but having fun each day. Mori's death forced us to rethink what we knew about living and loving...
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