THE FORBIDDEN PLAY

KINJIRARETA ASOBI

By Hideo NAKATA

TOEI COMPANY, LTD. - as SALES All rights, World

Horror - Completed 2023

The pioneer of J-horror, Hideo Nakata’s latest title is upcoming for release in 2023. Its title is “THE FORBIDDEN PLAY”. Nobody can ever escape from “a reincarnated apparition” that Nakata summons.

    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Horror
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Director(s)
    • Hideo NAKATA
    • Synopsis
    •  Elohim Essaim, Elohim Essaim...
      Words that break a sinister taboo...
      A dangerous play begins, that will resurrect the dead...

       “You know, when lizards lose their tails, they grow back.”
      “Really? So can a lizard grow from a tail?”
      “Yeah. If you bury it in the ground, and cast a spell, it grows back.”
       A delightful, playful exchange between a parent and child. Then, in the yard of a private home, the voice of a young boy chanting a spell fills the air... It all started out as a harmless joke, until a family’s peaceful existence is suddenly disrupted, and tragedy strikes.
       Video director Hiroko Kurasawa goes to the home of her former colleague Naoto Ihara, and sees his son Haruto reciting a strange spell towards a mound of soil in their yard.
       A mysterious incantation, a lizard’s tail, a finger, a pale shadow, an undulating pile of earth, and a sealed-off house... Eventually, bizarre phenomena begin occurring around Hiroko.
       What began as a child’s innocent wish becomes evil unleashed.

       Something lurks in this yard...

       Hiroko and Naoto are threatened by malevolent forces. Can they escape from the terrors bearing down on them?!