Following up on his horror smash hits Ringu and Ringu 2, Hideo Nakata directs this supernatural psychological drama about a middle aged woman struggling to cling to her sanity. Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) is the midst of a nasty divorce with her thuggish, abusive husband over the custody of their five year old daughter Ikuko (Rio Kanno). In Japan's family court system, which is heavily weighted towards the mother, Yoshimi case would normally be a piece of cake. Unfortunately, Yoshimi has a history of mental imbalance as a result of her miserable, emotionally starved childhood. The transition from housewife to independent working woman has been stressful. She has moved into a fleabag of an apartment -- completely with a constantly leaking roof -- and has had little luck finding employment. Worse, Ikuko and then Yoshimi start seeing a creepy little girl dressed in yellow suddenly appearing in apartment. With a growing sense of dread, Yoshimi starts having outbursts not only in family court, but also at her daughter's kindergarten. When she slumps into a coma after the end of one such fit, she realizes what the girl in yellow is trying to communicate.
Condition: NEW
Actors: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Fumiyo Kohinata
Directors: Hideo Nakata
Format: Anamorphic, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 2
Rated:
PG-13
Parents Strongly Cautioned
Studio: Arrow Video
DVD Release Date: October 11, 2016
Run Time: 101 minutes
Cast & Crew
Hitomi Kuroki Itsumi Matsubara
Rio Kanno Ikuko, age 6
Mirei Oguchi Mitsuko Kawai
Asami Mizukawa Ikuko, age 16
Technical Credits
Hideo Nakata Director
Masanori Adachi Asst. Director
Junichiro Hayashi Cinematographer
Takashige Ichise Producer
Taka Ichise Producer
Masayuki Iwakura Sound/Sound Designer
Kiyoshi Kakizawa Sound/Sound Designer
Kenji Kawai Score Composer
Shuichi Kishiura Special Effects
Yoshihiro Nakamura Screenwriter
Katsumi Nakazawa Art Director
Ken-ichi Suzuki Screenwriter
Nobuyuki Takahashi Editor
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