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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?!