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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Noroi: The Curse, it uses faux-documentary investigation to make escalating paranormal details feel disturbingly credible, balancing patient clue gathering with a deeply uneasy sense of discovery.
02
Why this pick
From Noroi director Kōji Shiraishi, this similarly follows a documentarian pursuing an inexplicable case, with dry procedural realism, fractured testimony and a steadily more unnerving supernatural scale.
03
Why this pick
Its restrained mockumentary form and interviews create the same archival realism as Noroi, but channel the investigation into quiet grief, ambiguous images and lingering existential dread.
04
Why this pick
This documentary-styled folk-horror investigation shares Noroi’s gradual accumulation of evidence, spiritual unease and convincing observational texture before the case grows far beyond its initial premise.
05
Why this pick
A missing-person report in abandoned tunnels becomes a tense found-footage investigation, emphasizing credible media texture, confined darkness and a methodical descent into the unknown.
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01 / THE STORY
The film focuses on Masafumi Kobayashi, a paranormal expert who produced a series of books and documentaries on supernatural activity around Japan. He disappeared in the process of making his most disturbing documentary, ''The Curse''. His house burnt down and his wife Keiko was found dead in the ruins. The aforementioned movie begins to play, shown mostly through the recordings of Kobayashi's cameraman Miyajima.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
TV guest
Mitsuo Hori
Herself
