Reincarnation

Showed at Images 10/15/2012

Starring: Yûka, Karina and Kippei Shiina

In Japanese with English subtitles

The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Williams College faculty Lawrence Raab, Christopher Bolton, and Jason Josephson.

35 years ago, a college professor named Norihasa Omori films himself killing 11 of the hotel guests, employees and his own children as a part of his wish to understand reincarnation. Then, he commits suicide. Since then, the footage of the murders has disappeared. In the present day, horror movie director, Ikuo Matsumura, decides to make a film about the massacre. As the date of the shoot draws near, Nagisa Sugiura, the actress who is set to star as Professor Omori's daughter, is haunted by the ghosts of the victims. She begins to hallucinate as she is plagued by nightmares of the killings.

  • Director: Takeshi Shimizu
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes
  • Genre: Horror

“Reincarnation takes Japanese Buddhist conceptions of the postmortem fate of the departed and reframes them within the conventions of the Western horror movie genre to startling effect.”

– Jason Josephson, Assistant Professor of Religion at Williams College