Don't Look Up
| Don't Look Up | |
|---|---|
Japanese film poster
|
|
| Directed by | Hideo Nakata |
| Produced by | Sento Takenori |
| Screenplay by | Hiroshi Takahashi |
| Starring |
|
| Music by | Akifumi Kawamura |
| Cinematography | Takeshi Hamada |
| Edited by | Shuichi Kakesu |
|
Production
companies |
|
|
Release date
|
|
|
Running time
|
73 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
Don't Look Up (女優霊 Joyû-rei?) is a 1996 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata. The film set in a film studio where a War film is being made. On looking at the dailies during production, a scene is spotted that involves a scene without sound from an earlier film. This scene involves a horrified woman onscreen, with another woman, out of focus, laughing in the back. The footage looks familiar to the young director Murai, who insists he had seen it previously as a young boy.
The film was made by Hideo Nakata while trying to fund production for his documentary film about director Joseph Losey. It was not a success in Japan, but prompted an English-language remake in 2009 which was directed by Fruit Chan. The film also influenced the creative choices Nakata would have for his popular film Ring in 1998.
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. 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.
...
Wikipedia