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RUNTIME
Did you know
Tight 50-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Cast
Atsuko Enomoto
Banjo Ginga
Kaori Shimizu
Yoshitaka Tanba
Rika Tou
Yu Li
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Akira Mizuki
- Writers
- Yoshi Nishizawa, Hajime Narita, Katsuhiro Fukuda
- Languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Akira Mizuki directs. Ryuichi Takano cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 50-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 235 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 3Part of the "Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
- 4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 5Editor Ryuichi Takano shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 6Atsuko Enomoto and Banjo Ginga and Kaori Shimizu carry the top of the cast.
The technical file
- Editing
- Ryuichi Takano
- Runtime
- 50 min · 0h 50m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- JA
Part of
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari
A series of horror anthology films released in 1991.
Production companies
Who made it
- TS
Tsuburaya Eizo
JP
Key crew
- SoundHideto Terasaka
- EditorRyuichi Takano
- ProducerKenji Nagai
- ProducerKoji Abe
- ProducerKentaro Takahashi
- CreatorAkio Jissoji
Release history · US
When it landed
- Physical1991-10-21
Also known as
International titles
- 怪奇千夜一夜物語/新夜の巻JP
- 怪奇千夜一夜物語 新夜の巻JP
