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What's this from? (Scary Japanese movie?)

SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG!Registered User regular
edited November 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
Would be interested if this is any good. Thanks!
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  • MurphyMurphy Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Well, that picture is now going to haunt my nightmares, but I have no idea what it's from, sorry. :(

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  • FantasmaFantasma Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Looks like a Kabuki Mask:

    http://geeseyznmerari.blogspot.com/2010/06/kabuki-mask.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki

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    Hear my warnings, unbelievers. We have raised altars in this land so that we may sacrifice you to our gods. There is no hope in opposing the inevitable. Put down your arms, unbelievers, and bow before the forces of Chaos!
  • flowerhoneyflowerhoney Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I was too scared to look at that picture for too long, but it reminded me of the poster for "one missed call"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Missed_Call_%282004_film%29

    maybe its that?

    EDIT: on second thought, it looks too old to be one missed call

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Looks a bit like Yuki-onna to me, or one of the many other similar female monsters in Japanese mythology.

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  • GrizzledGrizzled Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I'm sure I have seen this shot before, in a film.

    It may have been a Toshiro Mifune/Akira Kurosawa film but I'm not positive.

    I remember that the plot was something like this: a soldier deserts from the army and hides in a rural village where all the peasants are too cowed to get rid of him, but there are evil spirits that come out at night and terrorize both him and the villagers.

    In regards to was it good: yes, but not so scary. More looking at the psychological impacts of dealing with terrors in the dark.

    This is all really vague in my memory, but I have definitely seen the frame before, and pretty much the only black and white Japanese movies I watch are Toshiro Mifune/Akira Kurosawa ones.

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Ah thanks, will have to dig into that and find out some more.

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