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Juego prohibido (The Forbidden Play)

Year of production
2023
Duration
110 min.
Genres
Fiction

Synopsis

Hiroko, a television reporter, goes to visit the home of her former colleague Naoto on the occasion of his wife's death. Once there, she finds the widower's son reciting a mysterious spell out in the garden. From this moment on, a series of inexplicable phenomena begin to occur that will wind up endangering Hiroko's life. The director of The Ring now returns with a ghost story that skillfully navigates between horror, comedy and melodrama.

Director

Hideo  Nakata

Hideo Nakata

His masterpiece The Ring (1998) won the Award for Best Feature Film in Sitges and was the kick-off for the J-horror craze. His other significant contributions to this genre are Don't Look Up (1996), Dark Water (2002) and The Ring 2 (1999).

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Technical sheet

Section
Panorama
Director
Hideo Nakata

Writer
Noriaki Sugihara 

Cinematography
Takahiro Imai 

Editor
Naoko Aono 

With
Kanna Hashimoto, Daiki Shigeoka, Mayu Hotta 
Production countries
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Subtitle languages
Spanish, Anglès, Català

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