Sep 22, 2004
92 min
Full-HD

Dark Tales of Japan (2004)

Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.

Category

Horror TV Movie

Country

Japan

Companies

@Movie Japan K.K. Oz Company TBS

Kayoko Shiraishi

Old Lady (segment "Would You Like to Hear a Scary Tale")

Shozo Endo

Yamazaki (segment "Spiderwoman")

Yoshinori Okada

Hasegawa (segment "Spiderwoman")

Kanako Fukaura

Tomoko (segment "Spiderwoman")

Anri Sugihara

Akemi (segment "Spiderwoman")

Yoko Maki

Akemi's Classmate (segment "Spiderwoman")

Miyako Yamaguchi

Editor (segment "Spiderwoman")

Shunsuke Nakamura

Kodera (segment "Crevices")

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