Noroi (2005)

Director:

Kôji Shiraishi

Writers:

Release Date:

20 August 2005 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Everybody died.

Plot:

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba." |

Plot Keywords:

Demon | Fake Documentary | 2000s | Dam | Pigeon

Cast

Jin Muraki	...	Masafumi Kobayashi
Rio Kanno	...	Kana Yano
Tomono Kuga	...	Junko Ishii
Maria Takagi	...	Herself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Angâruzu	...	Themselves
Hiroshi Aramata	...	Guest on TV Program
Yôko Chôsokabe	...	Kimiko Yano
Dankan	...	Guest on TV Program
Tomomi Eguchi	...	Herself
Gôkyû	...	Guests of TV Program
Miyoko Hanai	...	Keiko Kobayashi
Ai Iijima	...	Guest on TV Program
Makoto Inamori	...	Kôichi Hirotsu
Ryûnosuke Iriyama	...	Psychic Boy
Satoru Jitsunashi	...	Mitsuo Hori
Takashi Kakizawa	...	Shin'ichi Ôsawa
Shûta Kambayashi	...	Boy with Junko
Kei Matsubara	...	TV Program Host
Ken'ichirô Matsui	...	Himself
Marika Matsumoto	...	Herself
Hisashi Miyajima	...	Himself
Mana Okada	...	Midori Kimino
Yôichi Okamura	...	Event Emcee
Mikako Okui	...	Herself
Ryôko Okui	...	Herself
Kazuhide Shioya	...	Himself
Hajime Suzuki	...	Himself
Hitomi Takashima	...	Takami Shimizu (as Hitomi Takashima)
Toshinori Tanimura	...	Himself
Yoshiki Tano	...	Teruyuki Yano
Toshimaru Yasuno	...	Villager
Takaaki Yuhara	...	Himself

Also Known As:

Curse (Japan) (literal English title)
Noroi the Curse (Hong Kong: English title)

Runtime:

Japan:115 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Japan:PG-12 | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

Shiga, Japan

Company:

Xanadeux Company

Quotes:

Mitsuo Hori: My God! The pigeons!

Worms it's way under your skin.

Another hand-held horror means another divisive movie that fans should still seek out and make up their own minds about.

Imagine a cross between The Blair Witch Project and The Grudge and you're close to the overall content of this movie. It's another videotaped horror but this time most of it is edited together in readiness for a video doc that was never completed by a supernatural investigator who disappeared.

I certainly had a feeling of dread while watching this movie (does anyone do dreadful better than our Asian friends?) but the creepy moments, the genuinely creepy moments, were sadly a bit fewer and farther between than I had hoped. I also felt that I was two or three steps ahead of the investigator when apparent "revelations" appeared throughout so I certainly can't recommend this as highly as [*Rec].

Having said that, it would be remiss of me not to highly recommend any film that goes on at length about ectoplasmic worms, contains at least two subtly spooky ghost moments and made sure that I had to put the lights back on for a while when the sun went down.

Check it out if you have been enjoying some of the other hand-held genre releases of late. And the finale is a hair-raising doozy.

See this if you like: The Last Broadcast, Pulse, Angel Heart.