Rinne (2005)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Takashi Shimizu

Writers:

Takashi Shimizu (writer) &
Masaki Adachi (writer)

Release Date:

7 January 2006 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Death Is Only The Beginning

Plot:

A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.

Plot Keywords:

Actress | Hotel | Professor | Ghost | Mirror

Cast

Yûka	...	Nagisa Sugiura
Karina	...	Yayoi Kinoshita
Kippei Shiina	...	Ikuo Matsumura
Tetta Sugimoto	...	Tadashi Murakawa
Shun Oguri	...	Kazuya Omori
Marika Matsumoto	...	Yuka Morita
Mantarô Koichi	...	Yamanaka Producer
Atsushi Haruta	...	Norihasa Omori
Miki Sanjo	...	Ayumi Omori (as Miki Sanjô)
Mao Sasaki	...	Chisato Omori
Hiroto Itô	...	Yuya Omori
Takako Fuji	...	Hotel Maid
Yasutoki Furuya
Tomoko Mochizuki
Hiroshi Okazaki

Also Known As:

Reincarnation (USA) (informal literal English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violent and disturbing content.

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | Singapore:PG (edited version) | Malaysia:18SG | Malaysia:U (cut) | Brazil:14 | USA:R | South Korea:15 | Australia:MA (2007) | Argentina:13 | Japan:PG-12 | France:-12 | UK:15 | New Zealand:R16 | Chile:14 | Hong Kong:IIA

Company:

Entertainment Farm (EF)

Trivia:

The third film in the hexagon project J-horror Theatre. The two first films are Kansen (2004) and Yogen (2004).

Movie Connections:

Follows Kansen (2004)

Maybe the best of the "8 Films To Die For"

First off, I was wrong when I reviewed "The Abandoned" because I said that this was the only film of the 8 that had a director I'd heard of. Takashi Shimizu was director of "Ju-On" and the subsequent films and American remakes. I just didn't realize it at the time. Anyway, forget Ju-On and The Grudge(s), because this is far better and much more to my liking. A young aspiring actress is chosen for a role in a film. The film is to be of a tragedy that occurred at a remote hotel many years prior, and she's apparently chosen for the part because she says she's been killed in a prior life, which piqued the director's interest, I suppose. The incident that took place at this hotel was that a man killed his son and daughter and most of the staff and hotel guests. Now, the hotel is being recreated on a set, but for the sake of "getting the feel of the place" the cast is taken by bus to this old and now abandoned hotel to check it out, and it's definitely creepy. There's something very wrong going on though, because young Nigisa is having flashbacks to what happened there & is seeing the former victims and the hotel is moving back and forth between its current state and the operational state it was in 35 years ago. Anyway, back on the hotel set in the studio Nigisa is still experiencing things like she was back in the hotel, and somehow her manager also find the roll of film that was taken by the crazed killer 35 years ago and watches it, to see the children and various others killed before the man turns the knife on himself. This is a VERY creepy film and yet at times it's kind of left at loose ends, as though the viewer is to actually use their imagination or something. Comparisons to "The Shining" are inevitable but while there may be some elements of that it's far more creepy than that film. I did rather like the creepy hotel, though, and it actually reminded me of Howard Johnsons, with the orange roof, although I haven't seen one of those in years. This is actually rather a hard film to describe, but it's well worth your time if you enjoy Japanese horror and it's one of the better films I've seen in a while. 9 out of 10.