# Maldición Inocente (Innocent Curse) (2017)

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**Original title**: *こどもつかい*
**Runtime**: 111 min
**Genres**: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
**Directed by**: Takashi Shimizu
**Written by**: Takashi Shimizu, Brazily Anne Yamada
**Starring**: Hideaki Takizawa, Daiki Arioka, Mugi Kadowaki, Haruto Nakano, Naomi Nishida, Hiroyuki Onoue

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Empty cul-de-sacs at twilight, a child’s lost mitt in the gutter.

A journalist follows a trail of vanished kids and fatal days later while his girlfriend waits in rooms that feel too quiet.

A J-horror ghost story unspools like a schoolyard nursery rhyme you can’t unlearn.

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

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