About a Place in the Kinki Region

Australian Premiere

“Dense with cosmic and emotional horrors lurking at the edges of the frame.” – Cinapse

Born from a viral online novel that had Japanese readers genuinely unsure whether they were reading fiction or reality, About a Place in the Kinki Region is the most ambitious film yet from Kōji Shiraishi (director of the cult classic Noroi: The Curse). Drawing on his unique J-horror mockumentary style of cinema, Shiraishi layers found footage with polished narrative filmmaking to craft something that's daringly different.

When the editor of an occult magazine abruptly vanishes, his colleague Yusei (Eiji Akaso) and freelance writer Chihiro (Miho Kanno) sift through the files he left behind: decades of unverifiable ghost stories, mass-hysteria incidents, unsolved disappearances and eerie urban legends. Scattered and strange at first, the pieces begin to cohere around a single, forbidden location somewhere in Japan’s Kinki region.

What begins as journalism becomes obsession, and what lurks at the end of the trail is something neither journalism nor reason can contain.