TIFFCOM 2005: Update on Akio Yoshida's TALES OF TERROR: HAUNTED APARTMENT (KAIDAN SHIN MIMIBUKURO: G
Distribution rights for Akio Yoshida's Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment (Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban: 'yûrei manshon' - or "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban: 'yûrei mansion'", if you prefer back-transliterations... in which case, have you considered the fact that loanwords often don't have the same meanings as their source words?) are being offered for sale by Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. (K.K. Tôkyô Hôsô) at TIFFCOM 2005 in Tokyo. The movie is being screened at the Virgin Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills on Thursday October 27th at 10:00 a.m..
As was reported here on ScreenAnarchy back on August 2nd, there's a downloadable trailer (see the bottom of this article) for Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment on the website of Slow Learner Y.K. (Y.K. Surô Rânâ). The official website (see the bottom of this article) for the movie is that of the entire Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro franchise, which is also comprised of the BS-i satellite TV series Tales of Terror from Tokyo (Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro), the theatrical omnibus movie Tales of Terror (Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban), and Keisuke Toyoshima's upcoming theatrical movie Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban: 'Nobuhiro-san' (which stars Rina Uchiyama). Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment opened at the Haiyuza Theater in Tokyo on August 15th.
The screenplay for Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment was written by Mutsuki Watanabe, based on one of the stories in Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichirô Nakayama's book Shin Mimibukuro: gendai hyaku monogatari: dai-roku-ya. (Kihara, incidentally, was in Seiji Yamada's J-sploitation movie The Naked and the Living Dead (Shin kaidan zangyaku hidô: onna keiji to ratai kaibôki) - a.k.a. "Yôki kaidan zenshû: bangai-hen: onna keiji to ratai kaibôki" - and both he and Nakayama were in Yamada's J-sploitation movie Shin kaidan rajo daigyakusatsu: bakeneko makai shôjo-ken - a.k.a. "Shin kaidan rajo daigyakusatsu: bakeneko shôjo makai-ken".) The stories in that and the other books in the Shin Mimibukuro series were told to Kihara and Nakayama by people throughout Japan. The series derived its name from, and was loosely patterned after (lacking the topical diversity of), the multi-volume book Mimibukuro by Yasumori Negishi (1737-1815).
The principal cast of Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment was as follows: Mei Kurokawa, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Toshie Negishi, Hideki Sone, Hiroko Isayama, Ryôko Takizawa, Yoshihiko Hosoda, Ayaka Maeda, and Sumie Sasaki.
Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment trailer (downloadable 3.2 MB WMV file)
Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro franchise official website
