A cursed 90s Japanese horror so obscure even TMDB forgot to count votes properly.
Three students, Hoshino, Tachibana and Keiko travel to an ancient and mysterious Chinese city in search of a potion that gives eternal youth. But once they arrive, Hoshino is attacked by a half-invisible creature that separates him from his friends...
Practical Effects
The half-invisible creature is peak charmingly jank effects work.
Production
Filmed in actual Chinese locations on what appears to be $47.
Director
Yonosuke Minamoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Yonosuke Minamoto has almost zero other credits — this may be his magnum opus or his only opus.
Part of a weird 90s wave of Japanese-Chinese co-productions exploiting exoticized 'ancient China' settings for horror cheapies.
JP
HK
