Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Chikai

Hinamizawa, summer. Cicadas. A boy finds camaraderie in a new small town. Then, one brutal crime. The past festers, a village's dark secrets clawing into the present. Oikawa's entry in the cycle of cursed-village horror films is more than a little baroque.

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Ataru Oikawa directed Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Chikai in 2009. See Ataru Oikawa's full filmography, where to start with Ataru Oikawa, or where to go after you've seen everything by Ataru Oikawa.

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Chikai was released in 2009 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 108 minutes.