# The Chasing World (2008)

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**Original title**: *リアル鬼ごっこ*
**Runtime**: 98 min
**Genres**: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Issei Shibata
**Written by**: Issei Shibata
**Starring**: Takuya Ishida, Mitsuki Tanimura, Shunsuke Daitoh, Rio Matsumoto, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Akira Emoto

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Rooftop, midday. A dropped phone. High school student Tatsuya wakes to a world altered: armed soldiers patrol the streets, hunting anyone named Sato. He joins a band of rebels, all strangers, all bearing the same cursed name. Shibata’s dystopian thriller offers a streamlined riff on paranoia.

**Mood tags**: mindfuck, paranoid

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