Terror Newspaper

Story

Read it...and you die

“Rule-based horror” movies are in the midst of an international revival. “See it and you die” in Bird Box. “Make a sound and you die” in Quiet Place. Hideo Nakata, director of Japan’s preeminent “rule-based horror” movie The Ring, a movie that terrified audiences worldwide, has now adapted Kyofu Shimbun (“Terror Newspaper”), the immensely popular 1970s occult comic, as a live action television series!

Shizuru Onoda is a 20 years old college student living in Kyoto.
On the very first night of finally living on her own, as she climbs into bed, she hears pounding on her front door. Terrified, she cannot bring herself to open the door, when through the mail slot falls the Terror Newspaper. Next to a childlike drawing is an article: “Three days from now, a woman will leap to her death in Kyoto.”

Three days later, she rides through town, doing her part-time job of food delivery.
As she drives by a building, she hears aloud sound behind her. Turning around, she sees a woman, laying on the ground, blood pouring from her head. Suicide. A jumper. She immediately thinks of the Terror Newspaper.

Another Terror Newspaper arrives at midnight that night.
There is another article about a future death...and this time the victim bears the same name as Shizuru’s father.

The Terror Newspaper don’t stop coming.
Unrelenting and unforgiving, they report on lost lives and disasters -- and reading draws Shizuru’s own death ever closer. How will Shizuru survive this terrifying insanity?
A web of traps and a shocking finish.
What terrible truth lies behind the Terror Newspaper!?

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Cast

Sei Shiraishi
Taiki Sato

Taro Suruga
Eiji Yokota
Yuki Katayama
Ryotaro Sakaguchi
Manabu Ino
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Hitomi Kuroki

Production Credit Notes

原作／つのだじろう「恐怖新聞」
©秦企画／CWF
©東海テレビ／松竹

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