'Chô' kowai hanashi A: yami no karasu (2004)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Yoshihiro Hoshino

Writers:

Yumeaki Hirayama (short story)
Yoshihiro Hoshino (screenplay)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Don't look back...

Plot:

Employees at a convenience store must get to the bottom of supernatural goings-on occurring within their workplace.

Plot Keywords:

Convenience Store | Spirit | Bird

Cast

Kyôko Akiba	...	Ryôko Kagami
Yumeaki Hirayama	...	DFJ News anchorman
Takaaki Iwao	...	Komori, the night-shift clerk
Etsuyo Mitani	...	Store owner's wife
Hiroko Satô	...	Nao Shingaki
Osamu Takahashi	...	Store owner
Susumu Terajima	...	Akira Tejima

Also Known As:

Cursed (International: English title) (DVD title)

Runtime:

Japan:81 min | USA:80 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:18

Filming Locations:

Japan

Company:

Take Shobo Company

A poor example of what Asian Horror genre has to offer.

I'm going to try and keep this brief, because this movie really isn't worth the time or effort of typing anything more than a few lines! First off, this is one of the most yawn inducing movies I've ever seen. There is little in the way of plot, and some of the characters are just irritating rather than being creepy or weird as their obviously trying (and failing) to be! The plot is just plain silly, and the resulting 'twist'(if you can call it that) at the end is just laughable. I hated every comatose inducing second of this movie. This is the painting by numbers method of Asian Horror movie making. You've seen it all before, and done MUCH better!