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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Dark Room (2012) [N/A]

Release Date:
July 4, 2012

Original Title:
戦慄ショートショート コワバナ 恐噺 黒い部屋

Alternate Titles:
Senritsu Shōto Shōto Kowabana Kowashi Kuroi Heya
鬼房東靈異真相

Genres:
Horror

Production Companies:
Rakusosya

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 50

Overview from TheMovieDB

Chika moved to Tokyo over her parents' objections and rented a room from her landlord. Chika was creeped out by the unfriendly and sometimes even hostile landlady, but one day a trivial incident leads to a trouble with her. One day, a small matter causes trouble with her, and over the next few days, she experiences a night of shivers.... Yukari has a crush on her tutor Miyashita. She has a crush on her tutor, Miyashita, but his girlfriend has been ill for a long time. When a classmate hears about it from Yukari, he says, with a light heart, "If she dies, Yukari could be his girlfriend... Haruka, an office worker, forgets something important at her office late at night. The company is an abandoned building that is rumored to be haunted. Unable to enter the building alone, she tries to find someone to help her and discovers a name in the address book of her cell phone that she had almost forgotten...

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Director:
Haruka Motoi
Takeshi Sone
Yokoyama Kazuhiro

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