# Dark Tales of Japan (2004)

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**Original title**: *日本のこわい夜*
**Runtime**: 92 min
**Genres**: Horror, TV Movie
**Directed by**: Takashi Shimizu, Masayuki Ochiai, Yoshihiro Nakamura, Norio Tsuruta, Koji Shiraishi
**Starring**: Kayoko Shiraishi, Shozo Endo, Yoshinori Okada, Kanako Fukaura, Anri Sugihara, Yoko Maki

> *Five of Japan's best horror directors race to reach the outer limits of fear...*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Nara twilight under charcoal skies. A kimono folds over bus seat vinyl. The driver’s name in hiragana blurs past the window.

Five headlights vanish on a switchback ridge. An old woman’s obi knot tightens as stories spill like loose change across the dark aisle.

One. A bus again. Two. A mirror that follows. Three. A phone that rings once dead. Four. A classroom where the chalk never stops. Five. A shrine gate left slightly ajar somewhere in Shikoku.

Five Japanese directors collide on the same night road, where kimono seams split open into centuries.

**Mood tags**: dread, slow-burn, surreal

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