Kinki

From Koji Shiraishi, the fiendish mind behind Noroi and Sadako vs. Kayako, comes a chiller that’s equal parts unnerving and highly entertaining, adapted from Sesuji’s viral web novel that became a major horror sensation in Japan. It starts with a disappearance: an occult-magazine editor vanishes after collecting reports tied to the Kinki region: missing children, mass hysteria, haunted livestreams, scraps of rumor that feel too strange to explain. Freelance writer Chihiro Seno (Miho Kanno) and the editor’s colleague Yūsei Ozawa (Eiji Akaso) follow the trail until the pieces, assembled into a single picture, converge on one location, and on something fundamentally wrong with it. Shiraishi works in the found-document genre he helped to pioneer, crafting dread from fragments with his trademark cheeky flair.