Imagine knowing tomorrow's obituaries today — and being powerless to stop them.
For reasons unknown to him, Rei receives the Kyoufu Shinbun every morning, a newspaper which foresees deaths and catastrophes... Based on Tsunoda Jirou's classic horror manga "Kyoufu Shinbun", serialized in Weekly Shounen Champion.
Direction
Anno builds dread through mundane repetition.
Sound
Eerie paper-rustling becomes unnerving score.
Director
Takashi Anno
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kyoufu Shinbun reflects 1990s Japanese anxieties about information overload and media saturation, predating our algorithmic doom-scrolling era by decades.
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