Inugami (2001)

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Release Date: Jan 27, 2001 Wide

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Masato Harada, who directed such critically acclaimed fare as Bounce Ko Gal and Kamikaze Taxi, rides the wave of Japanese horror flicks that followed the mega-success of Ring with this supernatural tale about moving to the wrong town and falling for the wrong girl. Akira Nutahara (Atsuro Watabe) is a young, attractive grade-school teacher who gets transferred to a remote school high up in the mountains of Kochi prefecture in Shikoku. There he promptly falls for fortyish spinster and paper maker

Unrated, 1 hr. 46 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Masato Harada

In Theaters: Jan 27, 2001 Wide

On DVD: Nov 23, 2004

Cast

Yuki Amami
Miki Bonomia
Atsur� Watabe
Akira Nutahara
Koichi Sato
Mimoto the Hunter
Torahiko Hamada
Old Man in Black
Keiko Awaji
Katsuko Doi
Kenichi Yajima
Michio Bonomia
Shiho Fujimura
Tomie Bonomia

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Uncommonly beautiful and thoughtful.

March 19, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central

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Walter Chaw

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Inugami is a decent take on the "trouble with living in an isolated village haunted by a curse" genre. To my recollection, there aren't really any other films that employ that particular setting, but Inugami manages to make it feel so ordinary and underwhelming that I got the feeling it'd all been done before.In unkind

October 14, 2007

Drew Smith

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This is a strange film. Although ghosts and spirit gods abound, they are treated in the most perfunctory of ways - they're not the plot, but what moves it. What the film is is more a human drama concentrating on rural life, superstition and incest than an out and out supernatural thriller or horror - though there are a few lurid deaths.

September 7, 2007