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Director
  
Duration
  

Country
  
Japan

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Horror, Thriller

Language
  
Japanese

Shikoku (film) movie poster

Writer
  
Kunimi Manda
,
Takenori Sento

Release date
  
1999 (1999)

Screenplay
  
Takenori Sento, Kunimi Manda

Genres
  
Horror, Thriller, Japanese Movies, World cinema

Cast
  
(Hinako Myoujin),
Michitaka Tsutsui
(Fumiya Akizawa), (Sayori Hiura), (Teruko Hiura (Sayori's mother)), (Yasutaka Hiura (Sayori's father)),
Makoto Satô
(Sendo)

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Shikoku (死国, "Land of The Dead") is a 1999 Japanese supernatural thriller film directed by Shunichi Nagasaki and written by Kunimi Manda and Takenori Sento.

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Plot summary

Shikoku (film) movie scenes

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

Cast

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

    Shikoku was released in Japan on January 23, 1999 where it was distributed by Toho. It was released as a double feature with Ring 2.

    The film was released directly to video in the United States on October 26, 2004 by Adness.

    Reception

    Jasper Sharp writing for Midnight Eye referred to the film as a "pedestrian addition to the late 1990s horror boom.", finding it "Hideo Nakata's high-concept popcorn movie Ring had proven pretty convincingly that the supernatural could be a lucrative cash cow in late-1990s recessional Japan. A contract job, co-written by one of Ring's original producers, Takenori Sento, and circulating on the lower half of a double bill with Ring 2, Shikoku is less an indication of either Bando or Nagasaki's thematic interests than an obvious attempt to milk the current interest in horror before it dried up. As such, it doesn't deviate too far from the path forged by its model in either style or formula.

    References

    Shikoku (film) Wikipedia
    Shikoku (film) IMDb Shikoku (film) themoviedb.org