Junji Inagawa's Short Horror Cinema: Horror of Legend(2002)
This is the third in a new series of short horror-cinema films depicting contemporary fears with Junji Inagawa as the storyteller. It includes "Peony Lantern," a traditional Japanese ghost story performed with beauty and sadness by Nanako Okochi, as well as "Kuma Onna," "Yamamba," and "Nurarihyon," a total of four stories.
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This is the third in a new series of short horror-cinema films depicting contemporary fears with Junji Inagawa as the storyteller. It includes "Peony Lantern," a traditional Japanese ghost story performed with beauty and sadness by Nanako Okochi, as well as "Kuma Onna," "Yamamba," and "Nurarihyon," a total of four stories.
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2002-12-24
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