Information
- Episode: 13
- Duration: 4 min. per ep.
- Studio: ILCA
- Release: SUMMER 2013
anthology avant garde avant-garde body horror contemporary fantasy dementia demons episodic ghost ghost stories horror japan new original work present short episodes supernatural supernatural drama urban legend
Yami Shibai
Rating: 7
Alternative Titles
Theater of Darkness, Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai, Théatre de l`horreur, Yamishibai: Historias Japonesas de Fantasmas, Yamishibai: Historias japonesas de Fantasmas, Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories, เรื่องเล่าผีญี่ปุ่น, やみしばい, 暗芝居, 闇芝居
Description
The mysterious, yellow-masked Storyteller is a man whose true name and origin are both unknown. He appears at dusk where children gather and recites sinister tales based on Japanese urban legends, to which his young audience eerily intakes. However, the Storyteller is no ordinary teller of tales. He incorporates a kamishibai, a traditional paper-scrolling device, to add visuals to his already demented narration. A series of short horror stories, Yami Shibai begins with a bachelor who, after moving into a new apartment, immediately starts sensing a malevolent glare being pressed into him. A single talisman rests on his ceiling, but he has no way of knowing it is one of the few safeguards that separate him from a bottomless pit of suffering. Each story is more terrifying, more appalling, and more sickening than the last as the Storyteller'