Noroi: The Curse (ノロイ)

"The names of persons and organizations in this movie"

"have been partially changed."

"Produced by Taka Ichise."

"Directed by Koji Shiraishi."

This video documentary is deemed too disturbing for public viewing.

These are books written by Masafumi Kobayashi, a journalist

who had been chronicling supernatural phenomenon since 1995.

He gathered accounts of strange occurrences...

in his pursuit of horrifying and unsolvable mysteries.

Once he'd begun using video in his research

he was able to compile his research on to videotapes.

That bomb shelter?

Yes. It's in there.

I saw it over there.

It running in the woods very quickly.

This is where you saw the ghost...

Was it suicide?

Yes. I saw him in the fender mirror.

This is where...

a family of five was massacred.

In April 2004...

Kobayashi finished his latest...

video documentary, "The Curse".

This has to have some connection.

But soon after that...

At night on April 12, Kobayashi's house burned down.

Later his wife, Keiko was found dead in the remains.

But Kobayashi wasn't found. He was declared missing.

Masafumi Kobayashi had mysteriously vanished.

His video, "The Curse"...

reveals a truth too astounding for us to imagine.

"I want the truth."

"No matter how terrifying I want the truth."

"Masafumi Kobayashi."

"November 12, 2002, Koganei, Tokyo."

"Masafumi Kobayashi, reporter of the supernatural."

The spooky voices you mentioned... What kind of voices were they?

It sounded like babies' voices.

Babies' voices...

"Ryoko Okui, housewife."

When did it start?

A couple of months ago.

The sound comes from over there.

Who lives next door?

A woman in her 40s and her boy, aged between 6 and 9.

There are two of them.

They moved in about half a year ago.

That was the only time that I saw the boy.

I haven't seen him since.

I see the mother every now and then when she goes out.

But she doesn't greet me.

I'm a bit scared. I don't want my girl involved, either.

Let's go to the neighbor's.

Let's go in.

What a mess!

Hello?

Anybody home?

I happened to be in the neighborhood doing some research and...

What kind of way is that to talk to me?

How can you talk to me like that?

May I have a few minutes of your time...

How can you?

My name's Kobayashi and...

Impossible.

Give me a break.

"The strange sound was recorded on video tape."

Let's begin.

Can you tell us what the sonic analysis revealed?

Okay.

We have the spectrographic analysis of the sound.

It has a band of noise all the way through it.

But here, there's a unique signal.

I'll play it back for comparison.

"The unprocessed audio signal."

This one's noise-reduced.

"The processed audio signal."

As you can hear it's like some kind of animal sound.

I have enhanced the signal.

Listen carefully.

A cat meows sequentially but this sound isn't like that.

What's interesting about this sound is...

that it doesn't repeat like a cat's meow, it ends with an inhale.

That's the characteristic of a human baby voice.

On closer examination

it sounds like the voices of more than 5 babies.

Several days after your visit...

they moved out of that house.

What? They moved out?

How about the strange voices?

Do you still hear the baby voices?

Not since they moved out.

So her name is Junko Ishii.

Come here, Miyajima!

Excuse us now.

They died 5 days later.

Mrs. Okui lost control of her car when she was driving.

The car went over the divider into the incoming traffic...

"Footage from a TV variety program, aired on August 3, 2003."

Good evening, everybody!

Good evening.

Very good, everybody.

Let me introduce you to

Mr. Koichi Hirotsu, the psychic.

Thank you very much.

Can you tell us how the experiment proceeds?

The first experiment deals with clairvoyance.

"Experiment 1, Clairvoyance."

In each of these containers

there's a piece of paper.

It has a drawing on it.

I want you to imagine what's drawn.

"First question"

10 children with ESP abilities from all over Japan.

We're about to witness their powers!

They all look kind of nervous.

Everybody, concentrate right here.

Try to envision the paper in the container.

You'll get a vision in your head.

None of us know...

what's drawn on the paper.

One of them is starting to draw what she sees.

"One of them is starting to draw what she sees."

Can she really see it?

Let's open the container

and take a look at the paper.

What's on the paper?

The answer is a double circle.

But not just a double circle.

Each circle has two points

where the line is broken.

It's a complicated shape.

Did anybody get it right?

"Results."

You there...

She got it right!

Kana Yano

can you show us what you drew?

Take a good look, everybody.

It's drawn with extreme accuracy.

Even the scale is accurate.

This is incredible!

Kana Yano...

She gave correct answers to

all the questions up to 4.

"Fifth question."

Will Kana give an correct answer to the fifth question, too?

Kana's already drawing something.

"Results."

Show us what you've got, everybody.

The answer to the question looks like this.

It's totally different.

"It means Star in Russian."

I guess this one was difficult.

Maybe she's tired.

Next we'll make water materialize in sealed bottles.

It's called materialization.

It is done by telekinetically envisioning water in the bottle.

Let's do it.

"Begin experiment."

This requires intense concentration.

And now...

you're about to witness a miracle performed by Kana!

Look, Kana's getting some water!

Can you see it?

At the bottom of the bottle... water's gathering out of nowhere!

Of course, there's no false bottom on the bottle, nor the table.

It's the same girl again.

What were you thinking

when you did this?

I thought about water.

When the water materialized...

did you feel something different?

Were you hot or numb?

I had a headache.

My, God!

What is this thing?

Some kind of hair?

Yes. I guess she materialized it together with the water.

What was it that mysteriously appeared in the bottle?

Tests done on the water that Kana produced, have come in.

"Professor Takaaki Yuhara, DSc."

The major component is water.

We found animal plankton which suggests that

it's fresh water from either a river or a lake.

The hair in the water is indeed that of an animal.

It could be human hair, but because there's no medulla development...

it could be from a newborn baby.

"August 27, Fuchu, Tokyo."

"Kobayashi interviewed Kana's parents."

Hello.

Thanks for coming.

She's been sleeping all day?

Since after lunch.

"Kana Yano, the psychic who appeared on TV."

She's had a slight fever since those TV experiments.

She's spent lots of time in bed, resting.

We took her to the doctor but he couldn't find anything wrong.

We're very concerned about her.

I thought the program was pushing the children too much...

Too many experiments.