The official website for Tetsuo Shinohara's Yokubô is now partly functional.
As was previously reported here on ScreenAnarchy, Yokubô is based on the eponymous novel by Mariko Koike (who also wrote the eponymous story on which Shin'ya Tsukamoto's "Tamamushi", in the omnibus movie Female (Fîmeiru), was based). The theme song for it is by Tomoyasu Hotei. Its principal cast is as follows: Yuka Itaya (she was in Takashi Miike's satellite TV - specifically, BS Japan K.K. (K.K. BS Japan) - movie Pâto taimu tantei 2 (a.k.a. "Onna to ai to misuterî: dai-146-kai")), Jun Murakami (he was in Shion Sono's Into a Dream (Yume no naka e) and Itsumichi Isomura's Getting Off the Boat at Her Island (Fune o oritara kanojo no shima)), Saki Takaoka (she was in Rokurô Mochizuki's Nureta akai ito, Suzuki Matsuo's "Yoru no shitasaki" in the omnibus movie Female (Fîmeiru), and Hirohisa Sasaki's "Gloves" ("Tebukuro") in the omnibus horror movie Tales of Terror (Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban)), Gô Rijû, Nao Ômori (he's also in Hisayasu Satô's "Imomushi" in the omnibus horror movie Ranpo jigoku, Masato Tanno's A Day Beyond the Horizon (Itsuka nami no kanata ni), Tatsushi Ômori's The Whispering of the Gods (Gerumaniumu no yoru, and Eiji Yamada's Kagi ga nai), Hôryû Nakamura (he was in Daisuke Gotô's A Room with a Private View (Nagame no ii heya: nozokareta onna)), Shungiku Uchida (she was in (Tetsuo) Shinohara's Karaoke Terror (Shôwa kayô daizenshû)), Kaoru Mizuki, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Kumi Nakamura, Hideko Yoshida, and Masahiko Tsugawa (he was in Takashi Kayane's Naniwa kin'yû-dô: Haibara shôbu! Kishikaisei no otoshimae!!).
Media Suits K.K. (K.K. Media Sûtsu) is scheduled to release Yokubô theatrically in Japan in November. The movie has been rated R-18 by the Administration Commission of Motion Picture Code of Ethics (Eirin Kanri Iinkai).
Shinohara's previous directing credits include "Momo" in the omnibus movie Female (Fîmeiru), and Karaoke Terror (Shôwa kayô daizenshû).