Trailer and official website for Yûichi Satô's PRAY (PUREI) and Yoshihiro Nakamura's BOOTH (BÛSU)
The official website for Yûichi Satô's Pray (Purei) and Yoshihiro Nakamura's Booth (Bûsu) is now online, and there's a trailer for the two movies on that site. Pray is scheduled to be screened at Cinema Rise in Tokyo from October 15th to November 4th; Booth is scheduled to be screened there from November 5th to November 25th.
The screenplay for Pray was written by Tomoko Ogawa. The movie's principal cast is as follows: Tetsuji Tamayama (he's also in Kentarô Ôtani's Nana and Mitsuo Yanagimachi's Who's Camus Anyway? (Kamyu nante shiranai)), Asami Mizukawa (she's also in Takashi Tsukinoki's The Deep Red (Shinku), Hideaki Sunaga's Nagurimono: The Fighter (Nagurimono), and Kunio Torii's Madamada abunai deka), Mitsuyoshi Shinoda, Katsuya Kobayashi (he was in Osamu Fukutani's The Last Supper (Saigo no bansan), Kumiko Akiyoshi's short "Bubu Again", Hiromu Nakamura's Concrete (Konkurîto), and Yûichi Onuma's The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage (Jisatsu manyuaru 2: chûkyû-hen)), Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Sanae Miyata, and Fumiyo Kohinata (he's also in Takashi Tsukinoki's The Deep Red (Shinku)).
The screenplay for Booth was written by Nakamura. The movie's principal cast is as follows: Ryûta Satô (he's also in Kunio Torii's Madamada abunai deka), Hijiri Kojima (she was in Masayuki Ochiai's "Presentiment" ("Yokan") in the TV horror movie Dark Tales of Japan (Suiyô puremia: sekai saikyô J horâ SP Nihon no kowai yoru)), Mansaku Ikeuchi, Makoto Ashikawa, Maiko Asano (she was in Kanji Tsuda's "Akuryô" in the omnibus horror movie 'Chô' kowai hanashi the movie: yami no eigasai), Masaki Miura (he's also in Ryûichi Honda's Ikusa, and was in Tôru Kamei's Double Suicide Elegy (Shinjû erejî), Yôichirô Hayama's Dead Waves (Shiryôha)), and Takahisa Zeze's Secret Journey (Yuda) - one of the four movies in Euro Space's Eros Bancho Series (Erosu banchô shirîzu)), and Mai Takahashi (she's also in Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War (Yôkai daisensô), and was in Yûdai Yamaguchi's Present (Purezento) - one of the half-dozen hour-long movies in the Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater (Umezu Kazuo: kyôfu gekijô) series).
Nakamura also directed the upcoming horror movies Asoko no seki and @babymail (@beibîmêru). He previously directed the introduction "Kowai hanashi, kikitai desu ka?" and the story "The Spiderwoman" ("Kumo-onna") in the TV horror movie Dark Tales of Japan (Suiyô puremia: sekai saikyô J horâ SP Nihon no kowai yoru).
Pray and Booth trailer (streaming, Windows Media)
Pray and Booth official website
