Director Hideo Nakata's debut feature anticipates his chilling RING (1998) through the ghostly figure of a malevolent girl in white who haunts her victims through moving images. First-time director Tashio Murai (Yurie Yanagi) is making a WWII-era psychological thriller about two sisters, starring veteran actress Hitomi (Yasuyo Shirashima) as the elder and newcomer Saori (Kei Ishibashi) as the younger girl. As Murai screens one day's rushes, something unexpected appears on the screen: Instead of Saori and Hitomi walking down a hallway , there's a silent sequence in which an unknown actress screams in terror while behind her, a girl in white cackles maniacally; a littl...
Released:
1996
Rated:
NR
Length:
73 mins