Call from Darkness (1981)
Original title: 真夜中の招待状
Call from Darkness is a 1981 Japanese-language thriller movie directed by Yoshitarō Nomura, with a running time of 2h 5m. It stars Asami Kobayashi, Kaoru Kobayashi and Etsushi Takahashi.
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
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What is Call from Darkness about?
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
When was Call from Darkness released?
Call from Darkness was released on 26 September 1981.
How long is Call from Darkness?
Call from Darkness runs 2h 5m.
Who made Call from Darkness?
Call from Darkness was directed by Yoshitarō Nomura.
Cast
- Asami Kobayashi as Keiko Inagawa
- Kaoru Kobayashi as Tatsuo Tamura
- Etsushi Takahashi as Yoshio Aizawa
- Masakane Yonekura as Toyokichi Kuze
- Junko Miyashita as Mitsu Harada
- Mitsuko Yorichika as Satsuki Akashi
- Atom Shimojo as Kuninao Fujimura
- Yutaka Nakajima as Hiroko Harada
- Tomoe Hiiro as Aizawa's wife
- Yasukiyo Umeno
- Eri Kanuma as Rie Harada
- Akiko Hoshino