Five directors, one nightmare — Japanese horror's most chaotic anthology you've never heard of.
After a night of nightmares, a man wakes up and tries to learn the identity of his "terrible dream". A newlywed couple stopped by. There, the newlywed is told an eerie prophecy by an old fortune teller.
Direction
Five wildly different visions, zero cohesion, somehow works.
Acting
Tsuda and Endo bring gravitas to absolute nonsense.
Director
Yumeaki Hirayama
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Chô Kowai Hanashi' translates to 'Super Scary Stories,' originating from a popular mobile phone horror story service in early 2000s Japan.
This captures Japan's 'J-horror fatigue' era — when Ring and Ju-on clones flooded direct-to-video, and even respected actors like Endo started slumming in anthologies.
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