Trailer for Akio Yoshida's KAIDAN SHIN MIMIBUKURO: GEKIJÔ-BAN: 'YÛREI MANSHON' ［怪談新耳袋�

There's a downloadable trailer here on the website of Slow Learner Y.K. (Y.K. Surô Rânâ) for Akio Yoshida's Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban: 'yûrei manshon' (or "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban: 'yûrei mansion'", if you prefer back-transliterations - in which case, have you considered the fact that loanwords often don't have the same meanings as their source words?); the official website for the movie is there (which is also the official site for the BS-i satellite TV series Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro, etc.). The movie is scheduled to open at the Haiyuza Theater (Haiyû-za Gekijô) in Tokyo on August 15th. It's the second movie in the Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban series - the first one being Kôsuke Suzuki et al.'s Tales of Terror (Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban). Unlike Tales of Terror, however, neither it nor the third movie in the series - Keisuke Toyoshima's Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban: 'Nobuhiro-san' - is an omnibus one. (Toyoshima's movie, incidentally, is scheduled to be released theatrically in Japan later this year; it stars Rina Uchiyama.)

The screenplay for Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban: 'yûrei manshon' was written by Mutsuki Watanabe, based on one of the stories in Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichirô Nakayama's book Shin Mimibukuro: gendai hyaku monogatari: dai-roku-ya. (Kihara, incidentally, was in Seiji Yamada's J-sploitation movie The Naked and the Living Dead (Shin kaidan zangyaku hidô: onna keiji to ratai kaibôki), a.k.a. "Yôki kaidan zenshû: bangai-hen: onna keiji to ratai kaibôki".) The stories in that and the other books in the Shin Mimibukuro series were told to Kihara and Nakayama by people throughout Japan. The series derived its name from, and was loosely patterned after (lacking the topical diversity of), the multi-volume book Mimibukuro by Yasumori Negishi (1737-1815).

The principal cast of Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban: 'yûrei manshon' is as follows: Mei Kurokawa, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Toshie Negishi (she was in Takeshi Yokoi's Shiiku no heya: rensa suru tane and Nobuhiro Yamashita's Cream Lemon (Kurîmu remon)), Hideki Sone (he's in Yasuhiro Horiuchi's Koroshi no okite, and was in Keita Amemiya's "The Promise" ("Yakusoku") in Tales of Terror), Hiroko Isayama, Ryôko Takizawa, Yoshihiko Hosoda, Ayaka Maeda, and Sumie Sasaki.