About a Place in the Kinki Region: Koji Shiraishi Returns With a New Japanese Horror Mystery

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About a Place in the Kinki Region

The incidents were never as unrelated as they seemed.

Japanese horror filmmaker Koji Shiraishi, the director behind Noroi: The Curse, turns a collection of seemingly unrelated supernatural incidents into an increasingly disturbing mystery in About a Place in the Kinki Region, also known by its original Japanese title Kinki Chihō no Aru Basho ni Tsuite - an occult magazine editor disappears while investigating strange incidents across Japan's Kinki region, leaving behind a collection of disturbing material that may contain clues to what happened to him.

After the editor vanishes, occult writer Chihiro Seno, played by Miho Kanno, becomes involved in the investigation alongside Yusei Ozawa, played by Eiji Akaso, where the pair begin examining the material the missing man collected.

That material includes reports of missing children, unexplained accidents, mass hysteria, strange incidents and supposedly supernatural locations, and the more they investigate, the more connections they begin finding between events that initially appeared to have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

Koji Shiraishi Is Back in Familiar Territory

For horror fans, the biggest selling point is obviously Koji Shiraishi - Shiraishi directed Noroi: The Curse, Occult, Shirome, Cult and numerous other horror films that have played with documentary/found footage horror filmmaking, supernatural investigations and supposedly real paranormal material.

The film is also based on a novel by Sesuji, with Tetsuya Oishi and Koji Shiraishi credited with the screenplay, where the source material itself has an unusual construction - rather than presenting its horror as a conventional linear story, the original work was assembled from different pieces of information, including articles, interviews and forum-style material.

The film stars Miho Kanno as Chihiro Seno and Eiji Akaso as Yusei Ozawa, with Atom Shukugawa also among the principal cast, and the film has opened already in Japan on August 8, 2025, with an international theaters/streaming release still yet to be announced.

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