retrospective
Noroi: The Curse
Noroi | Kôji Shiraishi | JP 2005 | 115 Min
| DCP
Metro Historisch
Tickets
Sa,21.09.▸17:30
Photo credit: ©2005 EF/OZ/GENEON/XANADEUX/PPM
While looking into several seemingly unrelated paranormal events, a documentary director disappears without a trace. But not before completing Noroi, where he has edited self-filmed materials, excerpts from television shows and even a 16mm film into an atmospherically stunning, scary and disturbing tale. Insufficiently well-known in the West, Kôji Shiraishi’s mockumentary masterpiece is a dramaturgically ambitious and excellently directed scary tale. Woven from a number of narrative threads which only come together into one great whole with the arrival of the final act, this is a landmark of found-footage horror cinema. (mk)
Kôji Shiraishi
was born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. He started out in the film business as a crew member on films by directors like Sōgo Ishii, whose Crazy Thunder Road he once called his favorite film. After making a string of his own independent films in the late 1990s, he became involved in the production of horror movies at the start of the current century. Since then he has directed a whopping one hundred movies, videos, shorts, and music videos, including Sadako vs. Kayako (SLASH 2016), Funôhan and, most recently, House of Sayuri. Shiraishi-san has always had a penchant for fake documentaries, a genre to which he contributed with movies like Noroi: The Curse (2005), A Record of Sweet Murder and Aishiteru! (2022), among others. In 2016, he compiled his methods of mockumentary-making into the Textbook of Fake Documentaries.
was born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. He started out in the film business as a crew member on films by directors like Sōgo Ishii, whose Crazy Thunder Road he once called his favorite film. After making a string of his own independent films in the late 1990s, he became involved in the production of horror movies at the start of the current century. Since then he has directed a whopping one hundred movies, videos, shorts, and music videos, including Sadako vs. Kayako (SLASH 2016), Funôhan and, most recently, House of Sayuri. Shiraishi-san has always had a penchant for fake documentaries, a genre to which he contributed with movies like Noroi: The Curse (2005), A Record of Sweet Murder and Aishiteru! (2022), among others. In 2016, he compiled his methods of mockumentary-making into the Textbook of Fake Documentaries.
Screenings
Metro Historisch
Sa,21.09.▸17:30
