School Ghost Stories 3
1997 film by Shūsuke Kaneko
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School Ghost Stories 3 (Japanese: 学校の怪談３, Hepburn: Gakkō no Kaidan 3), also known as Haunted School 3, is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko.[1] The film is about elementary school children who are taken to an alternate universe through a school mirror.[1]
Directed byShūsuke Kaneko
Screenplay by
- Shūsuke Kaneko
- Mitsuru Shimada[1]
Produced by
- Yoshinori Fujita
- Kazuhiko Seda
- Norio Kimura[1]
Starring
- Naomi Nishida
- Hitomi Kuroki
- Hideki Noda
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| Directed by | Shūsuke Kaneko |
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| Cinematography | Kōzō Shibasaki[1] |
| Edited by | Akimasa Kawashima |
| Music by | Kow Otani[1] |
Production company | Toho Co., Ltd.
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| Distributed by | Toho Co., Ltd. |
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Running time | 96 minutes[1] |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | ¥1.150 billion |
The film was one of the higher grossing Japanese films in 1997, grossing as much as Rebirth of Mothra and Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth.[2] The film won Naomi Nishida the award for Best Newcomer at the 21st Japan Academy Prize.
Cast
- Naomi Nishida as Kaoru Yahashi
- Hitomi Kuroki as Machiko Kubota
- Hideki Noda as a school teacher
- Takuma Yoshizawa as Ryo Kubota
- Aki Maeda as Mayuko Fujii
- Takeru Higa as Taichi
- Kazuki Yamada as Makoto Ota
- Hironobu Nomura as Teacher Tameyama
- Masahiko Tsugawa as the school master
- Machiko Watanabe as Makoto's mother
- Kei Satō as Takuya
Release
Reception
Naomi Nishida won the Award for Best Newcomer at the 21st Japan Academy Prize.[3]
