Don't Look Up
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Don't Look Up is a 1996 Japanese
horror film
directed by Hideo Nakata
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On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai (Yanagi), is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring actresses, Hitomi Kurokawa and Saori Murakami, play sisters in his film. Murai has a crush on Hitomi (Shiroshima), the seasoned leading actress, and keeps a photo of her by his bed. The younger and less experienced actress, Saori (Ishibashi), is annoying and likes to have recess on the set. The production of the movie is consistently interrupted by strange occurrences and the cast and crew begin to get spooked.
When Murai reviews the shoot, he is shocked to see that scenes from an unreleased (and presumed destroyed) drama from years earlier are intermingled with his negatives. As Murai is watching his footage, the scene is interrupted by a film within a film of an unidentified actress on a movie set, with something that looks like a woman behind her, long black hair, pale skin, out of focus, laughing hysterically.
Murai is fascinated with the freaky footage, as it looks strangely familiar of a pig on the set. The production shuts down for a formal investigation. Murai has only three days left to find out what is going on and finish the shoot.
Murai looks into his own past, and finds a frightening connection between the film he is shooting and the strange footage he has uncovered.
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horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
directed by Hideo Nakata
Hideo Nakata
Hideo Nakata is a Japanese filmmaker.-Life and career:Nakata was born in Okayama, Japan. He is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on Japanese horror films such as Ring , Ring 2 and Dark Water...
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Plot
Don't Look Up is about a film director and his crew who slowly go insane when the film set is haunted by the ghost of an actress who died while filming a TV show in the 1960s.On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai (Yanagi), is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring actresses, Hitomi Kurokawa and Saori Murakami, play sisters in his film. Murai has a crush on Hitomi (Shiroshima), the seasoned leading actress, and keeps a photo of her by his bed. The younger and less experienced actress, Saori (Ishibashi), is annoying and likes to have recess on the set. The production of the movie is consistently interrupted by strange occurrences and the cast and crew begin to get spooked.
When Murai reviews the shoot, he is shocked to see that scenes from an unreleased (and presumed destroyed) drama from years earlier are intermingled with his negatives. As Murai is watching his footage, the scene is interrupted by a film within a film of an unidentified actress on a movie set, with something that looks like a woman behind her, long black hair, pale skin, out of focus, laughing hysterically.
Murai is fascinated with the freaky footage, as it looks strangely familiar of a pig on the set. The production shuts down for a formal investigation. Murai has only three days left to find out what is going on and finish the shoot.
Murai looks into his own past, and finds a frightening connection between the film he is shooting and the strange footage he has uncovered.
Cast
- Yûrei YanagiYûrei Yanagiis a Japanese actor and tarento born 1963-04-08 in Fuchū, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Yanagi was originally a member of Takeshi Kitano's gundan. In 1990 he continued to work with Takeshi for the film Boiling Point. Afterwards, he appeared in over eight more films before meeting up with Takeshi...
– Toshio Murai / the director - Yasuyo Shirashima – Hitomi Kurokawa / the seasoned actress
- Kei Ishibashi – Saori Murakami / the debuting actress
- Ren ÔsugiRen Osugi, born , is a Japanese actor. For his work in Cure, Hana-bi and other films, Osugi was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Yokohama Film Festival...
– Ootani / the cinematographer (as Ren Oosugi) - Takanori Kikuchi – Masaru Hayama
- Hiroyuki Tanaka – Sekikawa (as Sabu)
- Reita Serizawa – Sadaoka
- Akira Hibino – Actor in the 1971 TV film footage
- Hirofumi Kobayashi – Shigeru Mochizuki / the lead actor
- Dan Li – Ghost actress
- Daisuke Iijima – Police detective
- Naomi Kojima – Actress in the 1971 TV film footage
- Katsunori Someya – Tomoyasu
- Yuuken Yoshida – Kasuya
- Toshie NegishiToshie Negishi-External links:...
– Tokiko Tsutsumi / Hitomi's agent