A Certain Spooky Place: Chilling Japanese Horror with an Online Feel
The 2025 horror film Kinki chihō no aru basho ni tsuite is based on a popular online serialized novel that captured imaginations in 2023.
A pair of sleuths, Ozawa Yūsei and Seno Chihiro, get closer to the title’s “certain place” and the secrets it conceals after the editorial chief of a paranormal magazine mysteriously vanishes.
- Unsolved disappearance of a young girl
- Mass-hysteria event at a school
- Urban myths
- Live broadcasts by ghost hunters
No common thread connecting them at first.
Ozawa Yūsei, played by Akaso Eiji, and Seno Chihiro, played by Kanno Miho, team up to uncover the truth.
Author's summary: Japanese horror film based on online novel.