Reincarnation (film)

Infobox Film
name = Reincarnation


caption =
director = Takashi Shimizu
producer = Kazuya Hamana,
Takashige Ichise
writer = Takashi Shimizu,
Masaki Adachi
starring = Yuka,
Karina,
Keppei Shiina
Shun Oguri
music = Kenji Kawai
cinematography =
editing = Nobuyuki Takahashi
distributor = Toho Company Ltd. (Japan)
released = 2005
runtime = 95 min
country = Japan
language = Japanese
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:341267
imdb_id = 0456630

nihongo|"Reincarnation"|輪廻|Rinne is a 2005 J-Horror film directed by Takashi Shimizu and written by Takashi Shimizu and Masaki Adachi. Preceded by "Infection" (感染) and "Premonition" (予言) "Reincarnation" is the third film in producer Takashige Ichise's six part J-Horror Theater series.This film is often considered as to be inspired by Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror hit "The Shining".

"Reincarnation" premiered at the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival on October 27th, 2005. It was theatrically released in the U.S. as one of the eight films in the nationwide film festival "Horrorfest", which ran November 17th through 21st, 2006.cite web|url = http://www.horrorfestonline.com/|title = 8 Films To Die For - After Dark Horrorfest|accessmonthday = December 14|accessyear = 2006|date= 2006|publisher = After Dark]

ynopsis

Many years ago a series of terrible murders took place in a hotel. These acts of homicide were executed and filmed by a professor as he slew his victims, including his children. He was trying to realize a sort of experience concerning reincarnation, but the footage had disappeared. Then, some years later, a horror movie director decides to do a movie about the massacre. As he starts the production, a young actress hired to star the main role is haunted by the souls of the massacre victims, along with several other actors.

Nagisa is the actress who plays the murderous professor's daughter, though the script was altered to make the child older. Nagisa believes she is the reincarnation of that little girl, until she goes to the cubby where the little girl was slain and finds someone else there. When she sees the real reincarnation of the little girl, and other victims are drawn back to the places where they died, Nagisa realizes she is not the reincarnation of a victim: Instead, she was the homicidal professor.

The film ends with Nagisa in a mental hospital, bound in a full-body wrap and haunted by the souls of the professor's children. Her crazed smile is oddly triumphant.

References

External links

* [http://www.j-horror.com/rinne/index.html Official Website (in Japanese)]
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Reviews

* [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117928862.html variety.com]
* [http://www.dreadcentral.com/index.php?name=Reviews&req=showcontent&id=982 Dread Central]
* [http://www.nipponcinema.com/db/review/reincarnation/ Nippon Cinema]
* [http://www.sarudama.com/japanese_movies/rinne.shtml "Reincarnation" review] at SaruDama.com