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Noroi: The Curse (2005), directed by Kōji Shiraishi, Arrow remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Japanese theatrical 5.1, commentary track, and English subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0930083/
Video encoded in two-pass 12.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Subtitles converted to SRT.
Note : Finally, one of the best Japanese horrors of the 2000s, and I think one of the best found footage/mockumentary horrors, has been released on something better than DVD. Yeah, it's shot on video, but it still looks a damn sight better here than it used to. This is a creepy, complex folk horror story about demons and curses, stolen fetuses, a weird, spooky kid, paranormal research, psychics, and some of the weirdest, most unsettling night vision footage this side of [REC]. The cast is also generally very good, including Jin Muraki, Tomono Kuga, Marika Matsumoto, Satoru Jitsunashi, and Rio Kanno. If you like Japanese horror, folk horror, and/or found footage, you owe it to yourself to check this out.
Kobayashi is a paranormal investigator who travels around Japan documenting his findings. During the production of a documentary called The Curse, he disappeared after his house burned down and his wife's body was found in the ruins. This film is the footage of that documentary, with some other facts and data inserted. Kobayashi investigated reports of the sound of babies crying from the house of a woman who lived alone, and who moved away soon after. The investigators find dead pigeons on the property, and soon after, a neighbor and her daughter die in a car accident. Elsewhere, Kana, a young psychic who's appeared on TV, disappears under mysterious circumstances after being visited by another supposed psychic, Hori, who tells the investigators "ectoplasmic worms" took the girl. After filming at a shrine, actress Marika Matsumoto finds herself compusively creating loops of thread and wire, even while sleeping. Kobayashi investigates, and on a recording of her sleeping, a microphone picks up the word "Kagutaba", which turns out to be the name of a demon which was imprisoned by the residents of a village which is now underwater after the construction of a dam in the 70s, the construction of which also ended the yearly ritual supposed to appease the demon. As Kobayashi starts putting all the threads of this far-slung story together, things go from bad to worse, including a rash of suicides, and the discovery of a young orphaned boy who Kobayashi decides, perhaps rashly, to adopt...
For what it is, this transfer is quite good, obviously an upscale, but there's texture and detail, and I've encoded at a fairly high bitrate to not lose any more quality, and with a looser crop than usual, so as to preserve all the lovely ragged edges of the frame. The 5.1 track sounds good, and the commentary track is pretty interesting and informative about this film's place in both Japanese horror and found footage as subgenres.
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General : Matroska / 10.3 GiB / 1 h 54 min / 12.8 Mb/s
Video : HEVC / Main10@L4@Main / 12.0 Mb/s / 1916 x 1036 pixels / 1.85:1 / 23.976 FPS / *Default
Writing library : x265 3.6+1-aa7f602f7:[Linux][GCC 13.2.0][64 bit] 10bit
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 694 kb/s / 6 channels / Original Japanese theatrical 5.1 / Japanese / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 140 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by film critic Julian Singleton / English
Text #1 : SRT / 41.0 b/s / English
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
00:10:27.168 : Chapter 2
00:17:52.154 : Chapter 3
00:28:46.808 : Chapter 4
00:38:14.083 : Chapter 5
00:47:47.365 : Chapter 6
00:57:10.385 : Chapter 7
01:07:01.100 : Chapter 8
01:16:59.365 : Chapter 9
01:25:44.264 : Chapter 10
01:35:53.748 : Chapter 11
01:44:45.237 : Chapter 12
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Encoded from Noroi.The.Curse.2005.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-PTP.mkv [25.4 Mb/s]
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