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Encyclopedia > Shikoku (film)
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Shikoku is a J-Horror film written and produced in Japan in 1999. It was produced by Shunichi Nagasaki and written by Kunimi Manda and Takenori Sento. The tagline used for the film was "Some things are better left dead...", with the genre of the film fitting into Horror/Thriller. The title is a play on words. In Japanese, depending on which kanji is used, "shikoku" can mean "four countries" (which is the name of the island where the movie is set) or it can mean "land of the dead" . Image File history File links Shikoku. ... Image File history File links Shikoku. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Poster for Dark Water J-Horror is a term used to refer to Japanese contributions to horror fiction in popular culture. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television that includes numerous, often-overlapping sub-genres. ...


Plot summary

Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayuri, died several years ago and that Sayuri's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has gone almost insane with grief. After seeing Sayuri's ghost several times during the night, Hinako consults with some local experts on the paranormal and discovers that Sayuri's mother has something planned for her daughter...


Cast

  • Yui Natsukawa .... Hinako Myoujin
  • Michitaka Tsutsui .... Fumiya Akizawa
  • Chiaki Kuriyama .... Sayori Hiura
  • Toshie Negishi .... Teruko Hiura (Sayori's mother)
  • Ren Osugi .... Yasutaka Hiura (Sayori's father)
  • Makoto Satô .... Sendo
  • Taro Suwa .... Oda
  • Tomoko Otakara .... Yukari Asakawa
  • Haduki Kôzu .... Chizuko Oono

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Toshie Negishi (根岸季衣, born 3 February 1954 in Tokyo, Japan) is an actress. ... Ren Osugi (大杉漣 Ōsugi Ren), né Takashi Osugi (大杉孝 Ōsugi Takashi, born September 27, 1951 in Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan) is a Japanese actor. ...

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Midnight Eye review: Shikoku (1999) (609 words)
Shikoku is the name of the fourth and smallest of the main islands that make up Japan, a mountainous rural province famed for its 1400 km long pilgrimage between the 88 temples established by the Buddhist saint Kobo Daishi (774-835), and a hotbed for the country's indigenous Shinto religion.
Shikoku is never really particularly convincing as a horror, and unable to capitalise on some earlier flesh-crawling moments, falls apart way before reaching its rather underwhelming showdown between Makoto Sato's renegade Buddhist priest and the forces from the darkside.
His greatest asset is perhaps the locale of Shikoku itself, shot in bleached out, hazy hues and long twilight shadows in the external scenes, and drenched out in the interiors by the shafts of natural sunlight that stream through the windows of Hinako's deserted property.
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