"Masters of Horror" Dream Cruise (2007)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Norio Tsuruta

Writers:

Mick Garris (creator)
Kôji Suzuki (short story)
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TV Series:

"Masters of Horror" (2005)

Original Air Date:

2 February 2007 (Season 2, Episode 13)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

Absolutely terrified of the sea, an American lawyer reluctantly goes on an ocean cruise to be near the wife of a client, with no idea of the grim situation that awaits them all. |

Plot Keywords:

Husband Wife Relationship | Thick Accent | Masters Of Horror | Childhood Trauma | Dream Sequence

Cast

Daniel Gillies	...	Jack Miller
Yoshino Kimura	...	Yuri Saito
Miho Ninagawa	...	Naomi Saito
Ryo Ishibashi	...	Eiji Saito
Tom Irvine	...	Young Jack (as Thomas Jones)
Ethan Amis	...	Sean Miller
Maki	...	Receptionist 1
Tiffany Martin	...	Receptionist 2
Ian Moore	...	Harrison
Gregory Pekar	...	Jack's Assistant
Katsuhiro Nagano	...	Cab Driver

Directed by
Norio Tsuruta

Writing credits
Mick Garris		(creator)
Kôji Suzuki		(short story)
Naoya Takayama		(teleplay) and
Norio Tsuruta		(teleplay)

Produced by
Keith Addis	....	executive producer
Rie Arikawa	....	associate producer
Morris Berger	....	executive producer
Ben Browning	....	producer
Stephen R. Brown	....	executive producer (as Steve Brown)
Andrew Deane	....	executive producer
Shinya Egawa	....	executive producer
Mick Garris	....	executive producer
Adam Goldworm	....	producer
John W. Hyde	....	executive producer
Nobu Iizuka	....	producer
Takeo Kodera	....	associate producer
Elizabeth Kushman	....	associate producer
Jennie Lew Tugend	....	executive producer
Yosuke Nakamura	....	producer
Jernej Razen	....	associate producer
Lisa Richardson	....	producer
Tom Rowe	....	producer
Lauren Weissman	....	executive producer (as Lauren C. Weissman)

Original Music by
Kôji Endô		(as Kozy Endo Jr.)

Cinematography by
Tetsuro Sano		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Hiroshi Sunaga

Casting by
Lindsey Hayes Kroeger
David Rapaport		(as David H. Rapaport)

Production Design by
Iwao Saitô

Set Decoration by
Ryoji Matsumoto

Costume Design by
Kimiko Tanahashi

Makeup Department
Tomo'o Haraguchi	....	special makeup effects supervisor
Asuka Hosokura	....	assistant hair stylist
Asuka Hosokura	....	assistant makeup artist
Makoto Morita	....	special makeup effects
Hiroko Nakamura	....	hair stylist
Hiroko Nakamura	....	makeup artist
Yoko Watai	....	nails

Production Management
Margo Coughlin Zimmerman	....	production manager: Starz Productions (as Margo Zimmerman)
Tatsuya Mouri	....	production manager
Stacey Jade Smart	....	executive in charge of production: Starz Productions

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Daisuke Kobayashi	....	third assistant director
Mizuho Kudô	....	director: making video
Jungo Shimizu	....	second assistant director
Hideyuki Yamamoto	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Chihiro Ito	....	set decorator assistant
Kenjiro Kiuchi	....	set builder
Ayako Moritoki	....	art designer
Masayasu Okiyama	....	art designer
Hiromitsu Soma	....	storyboard artist
Kiyotomo Suzuki	....	assistant set decorator
Takeshi Syojima	....	assistant set decorator
Chihiro Yamashita	....	property master

Sound Department
Shinpei Harakawa	....	boom operator
Masaru Okawara	....	sound effects
Akira Rizawa	....	re-recording mixer
Kenji Shibazaki	....	sound effects (as Kennji Shibazaki)
Norihito Sorimachi	....	boom operator
Yuji Tagami	....	audio: studio operator
Fusao Yuwaki	....	sound mixer

Special Effects by
Nobuhiro Ekubo	....	special props
Makoto Funabashi	....	special effects
Satoshi Narumi	....	special effects
Ichiro Yasukura	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Taro 'Kougaku' Ave	....	visual effects
Mitsuaki Hashimoto	....	visual effects
Takeshi Uchida	....	digital effects
Kazuhisa Yoshizawa	....	digital effects

Stunts
Kimiko Imai	....	stunts
Tomonari Nishimura	....	stunts
Yukihiro Sakate	....	stunts
Keiya Tabuchi	....	stunt coordinator
Yuji Takatsuki	....	stunts
Tsuyoshi Tsujii	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Takumi Amadaira	....	best boy electric
Toshiki Fukase	....	camera assistant
Mitsunori Goto	....	assistant underwater camera operator
Takuya Ishii	....	electrician
Yurika Kadoi	....	still photographer
Hajime Kanda	....	camera assistant
Takashi Kurihara	....	camera assistant
Hiroyuki Matsudo	....	underwater cinematographer
Aguru Miyanaga	....	electrician
Toshihiko Mori	....	electrician
Kiyohiko Moriya	....	gaffer
Nobuyuki Niibe	....	video engineer
Kazuhiro Okamoto	....	camera assistant
Rikiya Ueda	....	electrician
Akira Watanabe	....	electrician
Ayako Yamamoto	....	still photographer
Kousuke Yamamoto	....	electrician

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Tomoharu Hori	....	wardrobe
Ayano Ishihara	....	wardrobe
Chikage Okajima	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Tadashi Amano	....	video transfer
Junko Fujikake	....	film-rise editor
Megumi Hashiba	....	negative editor
Osamu Iseki	....	color grader
Satoshi Kumakura	....	film recording operator
Kenji Maejima	....	film-rise editor
Shintaro Miura	....	assistant editor
Shunichi Ogura	....	film timer
Morio Takahashi	....	film timer
Yoshinari Yamzaki	....	on-line editor (as Yoshinari Yamazaki)

Music Department
Jennifer Ross	....	music supervisor
Chris Fogel	....	theme music mixer (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Mitsuo Furuya	....	driver
Nobuaki Hoshino	....	driver
Shigehiko Matsumura	....	driver
Tomonori Miyoshi	....	driver
Tadahisa Omokawa	....	driver
Kazuhiro Yatsushiro	....	driver

Other crew
Tomoo Fukatsu	....	location manager
Hideyuki Handa	....	production assistant
Richter Hartig	....	production auditor: Starz Productions (as Richter Q. Hartig)
Sakiko Hayashi	....	designer: opening/end credit
Elissa Howarth	....	production administration manager: Starz Productions
Andrea Kaufman	....	production coordinator: Starz Productions (as Andrea M. Kaufman)
Yukio Kumagai	....	designer: end title text
Manabu Kuwahara	....	production assistant
Sean Muramatsu	....	dialogue coach
Takashi Nakajima	....	assistant marine coordinator
Masaru Nakamura	....	marine coordinator
Kayo Nozaki	....	production assistant
Nozomi	....	on-set interpreter
Madoka Osanai	....	labor coordinator: Imagica
Nobutaka Oyoshi	....	assistant marine coordinator
Naoko Sato	....	production accountant
Eriko Shimizu	....	production desk
Christian Storms	....	screenplay translator
Makino Tanaka	....	script supervisor
Tetsuji Yamashita	....	technical coordinator
Alan Abrams	....	business and legal affairs (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Starz Productions
• Nice Guy Productions
• Industry Entertainment
• Kadokawa Herald Pictures
• Japan Creative Management (in association with)

Distributors

• Kadokawa Herald Pictures (2007) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Kadokawa Entertainment (2008) (Japan) (DVD)
• Premiere (2009) (Germany) (TV)
• Showtime Networks (2007) (USA) (TV)
• Splendid Film (2008) (Germany) (DVD)
• Starz Home Entertainment (2008) (Australia) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Lighthouse (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Costa Abrams & Coate  legal
• Imagica  film lab services
• OS Productions  thanks

Runtime:

Germany:57 min (short version) | 87 min (uncut version)

Country:

USA | Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Australia:MA (2007) | USA:TV-MA | Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Tokyo, Japan

Company:

Starz Productions

Treading on familiar ground

J-Horror's career can be summed up by the audience's potential fright at being confronted by the righteously malcontent spirits attempting to breach their world for ours. However, visions of decrepit, deformed stringy-haired Asian women slowly reaching out to take our lives is no longer anything haunting because of their ubiquity in the early 2000's. Therefore, it'll have to take a memorable narrative twist, or unique emotional characterizations to be affected by their work. Neither are found in this exercise because of the director's erratic tendency to play temporal puppetmaster whenever he sees fit. The lack of faith I placed on the director's control of what is dream/what is reality led my mind astray and distracted me from the strengths of the singular setting. You get bits and pieces of the three main characters lives...but nothing sincere enough to create a lasting impression. Also, I found Ryo Ishibashi's acting to be cheap and second-rate though his character's breakdown is less involving and more two-dimensional than the other two leads. The film-making and the eerie green colors reflecting the malevolent spirit is fine...but the storytelling's too shoddy and incomplete to matter. An addition of western/genre plot reveals would have added more pleasure to this experience.