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(Synopsis)
One of Mayumi's better friends was Yoshimi, a young girl who had a natural ability to perceive spirits. With the help of Yoshimi, Mayumi often engaged in rather impressive demonstrations of Kokkuri-san. After being interupted one afternoon in the midst of their kokkuri-san session by her skeptical friend Aiko, Mayumi sets out to demonstrate both the reality of the kokkuri-san and the intuitive ability of Yoshimi.
When all three girls finally sit down in front of the kokkuri-san sheet, consisting of numbers and letters, they invite the doubting Aiko to ask the first question. After declaring her disbelief, Aiko asks the spirit the rather defiant question of how Yoshimi will die. With all three girls' index fingers on a coin upon the lettered sheet, the spirit slowly spells out the answer: Yoshimi will die by falling from a great height. Frightened by the revelation, one by one the girls pull their finger from the coin, only to see the coin more hurriedly spelling out the same declaration by itself. In a panic, Yoshimi hurls the kokkuri-san sheet to the floor with a look of terror on her face.
The traditional Japanese version of the Ouijia board is called Kokkuri-san. The "san" portion of the name refers to the departed spirit manipulating the responses. The "kokkuri" references one of several traditional interpretations. One tradition suggests that the name "kokkuri" comes from the rather ancient divination practice of placing three intersecting chopsticks in a large bowl of rice. The bowl of rice is offered to the dead in the same manner in which smaller bowls of rice are offered during the national holiday of Obon. By holding one's hands over the intersecting chopsticks and invoking the name of the dead, the bowl is said to tremble back and forth under the dead spirit's influence. In the Japanese language, such trembling motion is described as "gokkuri gokkuri", and thus the practice eventally came to be known as "kokkuri-san".
Director
Takahisa Zeze
Script
Kishu Izuchi
Takahisa Zeze
Producer
Shigehiro Arake
Cast
Ayumi Yamatsu
Hiroko Shimada
Moe Ishikawa
Rika Furukawa
Saki Aoshima
Publisher : Unicorn
Audio : Cantonese/Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Video : WideScreen
Subtitles : English/Chinese
Running Time : 92mins
Release Year : 1997
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