Sadako DX

• Japan.
• Direction: Hisashi Kimura.
• Production: Daiji Horiuchi, Etsuji Ogawa, Junji Igarashi, Keisuke Inoue, Nozomu Tanoguchi.
• Screenplay: Yuya Takahashi.
• Photography: Takahito Kasai.
• Music: Koji Endo.
• Edition: Takashi Tominaga.
• Cast: Fuka Koshiba, Kazuma Kawamura (The Rampage), Mario Kuroba, Yuki Yagi, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Naomi Nishida, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi.

Life would be an endless wasteland unless every now and then Sadako turned up, the onriyo, or vengeful spirit, that back in the 1990s spread its curse via a VHS tape. And so, when all of a sudden the director of Ataru: The First Love & the Last Kill (2013) offers up Sadako DX and we hear in the screenplay “sudden deaths. A new virus. A virus. Suicides right across the country”, a comforting chill runs down our spine. And if we make it all worse, then the rest gets better, because this time you won't die 7 days after watching it, but in... 24 hours! Interesting. With a visionary coming up live against a scientifically minded girl. She doesn't believe in ghosts. Without knowing that at the altar of their dead father, her little sister is watching the VHS tape...