Moryo no Hako

The Shadow Spirit

魍魎の匣

Release Date: December, 22nd, 2007

Running Time: 132 min

Genre: Action/Adventure , Drama , Science Fiction/Fantasy , Mystery , Thriller , Feature

Color: Color

Screening Format: 35mm

Screen Size: -

Sound Processing: -

[ Directed by ]

HARADA Masato

[ Produced by ]

[ Cast ]

TSUTSUMI Shinichi ── CHUZENJI Akihiko
ABE Hiroshi ── ENOKIZU Reiji
SHIINA Kippei ── SEKIGUCHI Tatsumi

[ Staff ]

HARADA Masato ── Screenplay
KYOGOKU Natsuhiko ── Original Story
YANAGISHIMA Katsumi ── Director of Photography
MURAMATSU Takatsugu ── Music
IKEYA Noriyoshi ── Production Design

[ Production Company ]

The Shadow Spirit Production Commitee

[ Story ]

A film adaptation of the most popular story from the Kyogoku Natsuhiko mystery series. Directed by Harada Masato of Jubaku: Spellbound (Kinyu Fushoku Retto Jubaku) and The Suicide Song (Densen Uta).
A series of murders of beautiful girls occur in Tokyo not long after the end of the war. Also the daughter of a retired actress, Yuzuki Yoko, has gone missing. In the meantime, a religious cult that claims to shut away misfortunes in a box has been gaining popularity, displaying an eerie aspect. Yoko's daughter is alleged to have been run over by a train, and taken into a research institute situated in a gigantic box-shaped building. A private detective Enokizu (Abe Hiroshi), a writer Sekiguchi (Shiina Kippei), a journalist Atsuko and a police detective Kiba each pursues their own case, and Chuzenji (Tsutsumi Shinichi), an owner of a secondhand bookshop, "Kyogoku Do" suspects that all cases are linked to the box-shaped research institute. They slip into the building and find out about the human experiment which Dr. Mimasaka has been carrying on since the war. Chuzenji and the others succeed in halting the experiment and the research institute is destroyed.