Dr. Akagi 1998  N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Shohei Imamura
Cast: Akira Emoto, Kumiko Aso, Jyuro Kara, Jacques Gamblin, Masanori Sera, Keiko Matsuzaka, Misa Shimizu, Yukiya Kitamura, Masato Yamada, Tomorowo Taguchi
In the Spring of 1945 a family doctor on a Japanese island obsesses over the ever-mounting cases of hepatitis among his patients. They live in the squalor inherent during wartime when one's country is losing the war.
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Kairo 2001 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror / Thriller
aka: Pulse
Circuit
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka, Masatoshi Matsuo, Jun Fubuki, Shinji Takeda, Koji Yakusho, Shun Sugata, Sho Aikawa, Kenji Mizuhashi, Takumi Tanji, Hassei Takano, Atsushi Yuki, Go Takashima
When Taguchi (Kenji Mizuhashi) commits suicide, his friend Michi (Kumiko Aso) witnesses it and then sees his body dissolve into a wall. Later, Ryosuke (Haruhiko Kato) logs onto the Internet and sees ghostly images walking slowly, and the computer prompts him with the message, "Would you like to meet ghosts?" Ryosuke checks with Harue (Koyuki) who has no idea of what is happening. These strange events could mean that Taguchi is trying to contact them–or is he?
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Ringu 0: Birthday 2000  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Ring 0: Birthday
Director: Norio Tsuruta
Cast: Yukie Nakama, Seiichi Tanabe, Kumiko Aso, Yoshiko Tanaka, Ryuji Mizukami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Kaoru Okunuki, Daisuke Ban, Junko Takahata, Masako
In this prequel to the horror film, "Ringu," the story takes place 30 years in the past when Sadako (Yukie Nakama) is still a young college co-ed withdrawn from her classmates but eager to join the drama club where she also is not welcomed by its members. When one actress dies mysteriously, Sadako takes over her lead role. Then, other actors die–one by one. Meanwhile, reporter Shoko Miyaji (Yoshiko Tanaka) has tracked down Sadako in the process of uncovering a series of unsolved murders. Is Sadako a cold-blooded murderer, or are there powers within her over which she has no control?
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| 1. Dr. Akagi (1998)
2. Kairo (2001)
aka: Pulse
aka: Circuit
3. Ringu 0: Birthday (2000)
aka: Ring 0: Birthday
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