is a 1997

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ese movie directed by

Takahisa Zeze is a Japanese film director and screenwriter first known for his soft-core pornographic '' pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the . In recent years, he h ...

about three girls, Mio, Hiroko, and Masami.Alexander Jacoby ''A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors'' 2013 p2030 "By this time, Zezehad made his first true mainstream film, Kokkuri (Kokkuri‒san, 1997),a conventional if agreeably understated horror film about schoolgirls using a ouija board."

Plot

A group of friends play the Japanese game

Kokkuri or is a Japanese game popular during the Meiji era that is also a form of divination, partially based on Western table-turning. The name ''kokkuri'' is an onomatopoeia meaning "to nod up and down", and refers to the movement of the actual ''kok ...

to summon

Kokkuri-san or is a Japanese game popular during the Meiji era that is also a form of divination, partially based on Western table-turning. The name ''kokkuri'' is an onomatopoeia meaning "to nod up and down", and refers to the movement of the actual ''kok ...

, a spirit who can answer any question as a pastime but apparently reveals dark secrets that will make these girls turn against each other.

Cast & Crew

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by: *Rikiya Mizushima *Isao Kiriyama

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: * Tomozo Yamaguchi * Tatsuo Uruga

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* Minoru Yokote * Shigehiro Arake Screenplay: *

Kishu Izuchi is a film director and screenwriter from Japan. He has often collaborated with Takahisa Zeze. Career Izuchi began making films while a student at Hosei University, winning an award at the Tokyo Student Film Festival. He began writing screenplays ...

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: * Shinichi Hayashi Supervising Production Designer: * Yoshinobu Nishioka

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Hisayuki Kobayashi Hisayuki (written: 久行, 久之 or 永行) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese yakuza member *, Japanese long-distance runner *, Japanese golfer *, Japanese anime director, screenwriter and write ...

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: * Goro Yasukawa * Sound Director: *

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Editing Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, orga ...

: * Shinichi Fushima Cast: * Ayumi Yamatsu * Hiroko Shimada * Moe Ishikawa

Release

It was distributed in the

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of America by AsiaVision, the

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label of

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References

External links

''AsiaVision'' Official Website

''Kokkuri-san'' review
at SaruDama.com * 1997 films 1990s Japanese-language films Films directed by Takahisa Zeze 1997 horror films 1990s Japanese films {{1990s-horror-film-stub