Update: Synopses for Yûichi Satô's PRAYER (PUREI) - a.k.a. "Pray" - and Yoshihiro Nakamura's BOOTH

The official website for Yûichi Satô's Prayer (Purei) - a.k.a. "Pray" - and Yoshihiro Nakamura's Booth (Bûsu) is still online, and there's a trailer for the two movies on that site (see the bottom of this article). As was reported here on ScreenAnarchy back on September 1st, Booth is playing at the Cinema Rise in Tokyo until November 25th; it opened there on November 5th. Prayer played at the Cinema Rise from October 15th to November 4th. As was reported here on ScreenAnarchy back on October 15th, Tartan Films Distribution Limited purchased U.S. and U.K. distribution rights for Prayer and Booth from Pony Canyon K.K. (K.K. Ponî Kyanion) at the Industry Center of the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) in mid-October.

The screenplay for Prayer was written by Tomoko Ogawa. The movie's principal cast is as follows: Tetsuji Tamayama, Asami Mizukawa, Mitsuyoshi Shinoda, Katsuya Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Sanae Miyata, Fumiyo Kohinata, Karen Nakazawa, Ei Morisako, Kôya Horimoto, Erika Asakura, Fumi Higuchi, and Kôko Mori.

The screenplay for Booth was written by (Yoshihiro) Nakamura. The movie's principal cast is as follows: Ryûta Satô, Hijiri Kojima, Mansaku Ikeuchi, Makoto Ashikawa, Maiko Asano, Masaki Miura, Mai Takahashi, Masaaki Maeda, Kei Sunaga, Akira Matsumura, Matomu Onda, Miyû Sawai (a.k.a. Miyuu Sawai), Akira Satô, Hiroshi Ôtsuka, Rumi Yamamoto, Shô Ôkura, Fumi Higuchi, Takeshi Nagaya, Yûki Iioka (7th listing on the left), Daisuke Kobayashi, Masato Sunakawa, Reika Tonegawa (given name may be "Rinka", "Suzuka", etc.), Mio Nagao, Miho Hirata, and Kiyoko Saitô.

Below are synopses for Prayer and Booth from pages for these movies on Pony Canyon's website.

Synopsis for Prayer:

Mitsuru (Tetsuji Tamayama) and Maki (Asami Mizukawa) kidnap a young girl and hide out in an abandoned school. If they get the ransom money as planned, it will buy them the drugs... and the ticket out of their stagnant lives.

But Mitsuru makes one gross miscalculation. Their hostage, Ai Shinohara, already died one year ago.

Strange sounds echo through the hallways. The girl disappears and reappears.

One by one, the kidnappers die bizarre deaths, their wrists severed from their bodies.

"Who... are you?"

The mysterious girl slowly extricates the deeply buried memories of one man's tragic past....

Synopsis for Booth:

Shingo Katsumata is the popular host of a late night radio program called "Tokyo Love Lines". One day, at the station, there was a sudden change of studios and he had to use a different, unfamiliar one. A studio which came complete with a legend, as back when the station first opened, an announcer died there, mysteriously.

This night Shingo's program began as usual with phone calls from listeners talking about problems with their love lives. The topic was "unpardonable words". He was listening to a caller, a grade school student, talking about her problems with boys and suddenly he heard eerie laughter and a different female voice whispering "liar".

Interference? If not, then what...? There was panic inside the studio but regardless the show had to go on. The accusing voice threatened Shingo on the air with suspicions, which recalled past betrayals and a young man's arrogance. It was as if Shingo had fallen victim to a curse and that he was being marked for death.

Prayer and Booth trailer (streaming, Windows Media)

Prayer and Booth official website
Pony Canyon: Prayer (in English)

Pony Canyon: Booth (in English)