Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak

July 1983, a siren pulsing over empty village streets. Barricades seal the road, a single quarantine notice fluttering. Keiichi and Rena scan streets that remember screams, now coughing into silence. The virus could mean gods or labs. One girl stays too long in the clinic. A late-night film of paranoid villagers in an animation that shuffles genres like a deck of nightmares.

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Toshifumi Kawase directed Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak in 2013. See Toshifumi Kawase's full filmography, where to start with Toshifumi Kawase, or where to go after you've seen everything by Toshifumi Kawase.

Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak was released in 2013 (JA original-language production).