The Shadow Spirit
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- Movie: The Shadow Spirit
- Romaji: Moryo no hako
- Japanese: 魍魎の匣
- Director: Masato Harada
- Writer: Natsuhiko Kyogoku
- Producer: Satoru Ogura, Issei Shibata, Kiyoshi Inoue
- Cinematographer: Katsumi Yanagishima
- Release Date: December 22, 2007
- Runtime: 133 min.
- Studio: Showgate, Geneon Entertainment
- Distributor: Showgate
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
A series of murders of beautiful girls occur in Tokyo not long after the end of the war. Also the daughter of a retired actress, Yuzuki Yoko, has gone missing. In the meantime, a religious cult that claims to shut away misfortunes in a box has been gaining popularity, displaying an eerie aspect. Yoko's daughter is alleged to have been run over by a train, and taken into a research institute situated in a gigantic box-shaped building. A private detective Enokizu (Abe Hiroshi), a writer Sekiguchi (Shiina Kippei), a journalist Atsuko and a police detective Kiba each pursues their own case, and Chuzenji (Tsutsumi Shinichi), an owner of a secondhand bookshop, "Kyogoku Do" suspects that all cases are linked to the box-shaped research institute. They slip into the building and find out about the human experiment which Dr. Mimasaka has been carrying on since the war. Chuzenji and the others succeed in halting the experiment and the research institute is destroyed.
Cast
- Shin'ichi Tsutsumi - Akihiko Chuzenji / Kyogokudo
- Kippei Shiina - Sekiguchi
- Masatoshi Nagase
- Hiroshi Abe - Reijiro
- Hitomi Kuroki - Yoko
- Rena Tanaka - Atsuko chuzenji
- Misa Shimizu
- Hiroyuki Miyasako
- Ryoko Shinohara
- Akira Emoto
- Kankuro Kudo
- YosiYosi Arakawa
- Mitsuki Tanimura
- Takashi Sasano
- Mika Kamiya
- Magii
- Keisuke Horibe
- Mikio Osawa
- Saki Terashima
- Yujin Harada
- Ken'ichi Ukon
- Hiroshi Ohmori
- Shoko Ikezu
- Toshihiro Yashiba
- Kazushige Komatsu
- Aoi Shimoyama
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Film Festivals
- 2008 (7th) New York Asian Film Festival - June 20th-July 6th - * North American Premiere
- 2008 (12th) Fantasia Film Festival - July 3rd-21st * Canadian Premiere
- 2008 (12th) Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival - July 18-27 - World Fantastic Cinema
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