Japanese Box
Production Notes
Our third short film, the aim being to up the anti a little. IceCandy came in to help introduce a little animation into the film, something Two Bells is quite fond, has done it since and will no doubt continue to develop. It is Japanese with an English voice-over, ambient and fairly stylised (in the Japanese horror-tradition popular during the early naughties). This is the first film on which we worked with Maye Choo, who was paired up with Masayo Aizawa as the villain and heroin respectively. Lindon Rankin shot the film, and regulars Richard Mosley and Jonty Reason were also involved.
It did not turn out to be the great film we hoped for - rough around the edges and without a clear story. Fortunately Redemption Films were happy to overlook these faults and sought to distribute our unusual little film. Since 2003 it's been released as a DVD extra on four Japanese feature films - thumbnails listed below. The distributor has a particular reputation for Japanese pink cinema; violent, almost pornographic in places and occasionally funny. 'Japanese Box' is none of these but it's nice to have some exposure!
About
A creepy story revolving around Takako (Maye Choo), who recently lost her beloved to a suicide, obsessing over a box she feels is the cause. With the help of an investigator she tracks down the box her boyfriend lost.
She's accompanied by a friend to a derelict house to quietly study the box - but soon finds her destiny is not so different from her love's. Masayo (Masayo Aizawa), the innocent friend of the intense Takako, is left alone in the house with the box with Takako disappears after hearing a noise in the house. The detective is also near-by, having himself become obsessed by the item.
Takako and her dead love are reunited, now keen on Masayo joining them in their blissful post-death existence, and the detective steals the box back to discover why it has such a stronghold over him.
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