At the 3rd Pingyao Film Festival, Director Takashi Shimizu's "Inuyasha Village" held its world premiere.
The location of the film screening is the open-air screening field that can accommodate more than a thousand people in the Pingyao Film Palace, and watching horror movies with more than a thousand people in the cold wind is also a very rare experience in the middle of the night, the viewing range is also very good, the movie also frightens the audience to scream, and the horror effect is doubled.
"Inuyasha Village" is also attractive to the heroine Sanji Caihua, she has countless fans for starring in Jay Chou's MV, and playing the heroine in "Inuyasha Village" is also her first appearance in China, adding a lot of topics to the film.
The director of the film, Shimizu Takashi, is a world-renowned horror film director, and "The Grudge" is his work, which is also an indelible psychological shadow for many people.
The stage of the story took place in Inuyasha Village, in reality is actually a supernatural legend, Japan's Kyushu Island Fukuoka Prefecture has a Inuyasha Tunnel connected to the Inuyasha Dam, which is a well-known spiritual place in Japan, many legends have been generated from here, legend has that before this, there were many people in Inuyasha Village, but finally it was forced to relocate due to the construction of the reservoir, and the village was disappeared, completely erased from the map, and the cemetery of the deceased was forever sunk.
Since then, there have been many strange things, such as often seeing the light in the reservoir, sometimes you can hear the sound, there are many people here, for a time The Inuga Reservoir became a suicide site like Aokihara Tree Sea, and the Inouma Tunnel connected to the reservoir was also frequently involved in traffic accidents, and finally the Japanese government sealed the tunnel on the grounds that the tunnel road surface was narrow, but whether this was the real reason is unknown.
"Inuyasha Village" is based on many supernatural legends, many legends appear one by one in the film, in reality the already terrifying scenes appear in the movie, many circulate on the Internet, and the photos of the former Inuyasha Village are also restored in the film, so that the horror of the film is more realistic.
In terms of plot, "Inuyasha Village" can be said to be the most outstanding work in the plot after "Curse" by Shimizu Takashi, the psychologist Morita Soma (Miyoshi Caihana), who has one after another strange events around her, and Morita Himself has seen many illusions, which have intensified until they have led to many deaths and disappearances, and the spearhead of these events is pointed to inuyasha Village, the land of the spirit.
The story begins with a family in which the eldest son and girlfriend of the Morita family go on an expedition to Inuga Village, involving the whole family in the incident, and the people in the family have more or less strange behaviors, which goes back to Morita's mother and grandmother, until the secrets of Inuga Village are revealed.
Revealing the supernatural events at the same time there is also a strong suspense, the film also well combines the illusion and reality, Inuyasha village finally becomes a combination of illusion and reality, by the descendants to uncover the family's past life, the descendants also saved the origin of the family, one end at a time to achieve a loop, such a design is quite innovative.
"Inuyasha Village" is the most commendable or horror effect, in the film Shimizu Takashi seems to be full of strength to use his housekeeping skills, the beginning of the film is to cut into the method of pseudo-documentary horror film, the gloomy environment, a variety of small scare points will bring you into the plot. In the film, the ghost of Inuyasha village is designed to look like a zombie, adding a lot of zombie movie fun to the film.
The film has the usual method of horror films, using music to set off the atmosphere and sudden shock. There are also innovations, every camera movement, scene changes can bring out the ghost, so that the "sweeping" scare point is the most chilling, hospitals, tunnels, telephone booths according to the different horror design of the scene.
In fact, director Shimizu Takashi does not have many excellent works in addition to "The Grudge", and his subsequent directorial career is suspected of frying the cold rice of "The Grudge", and "Inuyasha Village" proves the strength of Shimizu Takashi, and "Inuyasha Village" is enough to become another masterpiece of Shimizu Takashi.