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Seance (2000)

Seance poster
Original title
降霊
Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genre
drama film, horror film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 48 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A married couple deals with the wife's psychic ability to talk to spirits. A missing child draws them into a tense situation.

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What happens

Séance (Japanese: 降霊, Hepburn: Kōrei) is a 2000 Japanese television horror film directed and co-written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, based on the 1961 novel Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Mark McShane. The novel had previously been adapted in a 1964 British film of the same name. It stars Kōji Yakusho, Jun Fubuki and Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, and follows the married couple of Koji and Junko, the latter being a psychic that can communicate with spirits. It premiered in Switzerland on August 7, 2000, and on May 12, 2001 in Japan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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