Name: Shinrei shashin bu
Genre: Horror
Released: 2015-05-30
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Yousuke Itou, Mio Kudo, Aki Morita

So boring you might end up on one of the photos...

I had actually never even heard about this 2015 Japanese horror movie titled "Shinrei Shashin Bu" (aka "The Ghost Photo Club") prior to stumbling upon the movie by random chance here in 2023. And with it being a Japanese horror movie, of course I had to watch it, as Japan have made an abundance of great horror movies.

However, "Shinrei Shashin Bu" from writer Osamu Fukutani, was not one such movie. I found the storyline in the movie to by very, very boring and slow paced. And it was a very difficult movie to suffer through, especially since neither storyline or characters had any appeal to me. I ended up giving up on the movie halfway through, but I just simply couldn't stand any more of the utter boredom that was "Shinrei Shashin Bu".

I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in "Shinrei Shashin Bu", but the actors and actresses virtually had nothing overly impressive or wholesome to work with, and that was restricting them from performing outstandingly.

For a horror movie, then "Shinrei Shashin Bu" was frightfully devoid of anything scary, or even anything interest for that matter.

My rating of director Jirô Nagae' 2015 movie "Shinrei Shashin Bu" lands on a generous two out of ten stars. And while I managed to suffer through only half of the movie, I have absolute no interest in returning to attempt to finish watching the rest of the movie; I just simply don't need that kind of boredom in my life.

Japanese cinema is celebrated for its refined minimalist dramas and avant-garde experimentation; it also introduced popular genres like jidaigeki (samurai epics), kaiju, and anime. Across both high art and mass entertainment, it often explores morality, impermanence, and the pressures of modern life.

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A girl who joins the paranormal activity school club sees a ghost at the school one day. Someone sends in a photograph of a ghost at the same time. The club begins investigating, but friends from school soon begin to disappear. The girl begins also searching for her friends at a cave known for the presence of ghosts. She had a hint from the photograph that was sent in.

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