Fuji_Jukai.mov

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Never released outside of Japan, FUJI_JUKAI.MOV is an eerie found footage horror movie from filmmaker Katsumi Sakashita. The story follows Ami, a high school student who travels to the Jukai forest to take her own life. But when students Mi-tan and Hinata interrupt Ami's plans, an even darker side of the forest is revealed. The first J-horror feature to be filmed entirely on an iPhone, FUJI_JUKAI.MOV combines true crime chills with ambitious unfiction to build an unsettling experience that's a true discovery for found footage archeologists.

directed by: Katsumi Sakashita
starring: various
2016 / 84 min / 1.85:1 / Japanese DTS-HD MA 2.0

Additional info:

• Region Free Blu-ray
• In Japanese language with optional English subtitles
• Restored from the original HDCAM master
• Video introduction by director Katsumi Sakashita
• Partial commentary by film programmer and critic Jenny Nulf
• GO TO YOUR HAPPY PLACE: AN APPRECIATION OF FUJI_JUKAI.MOV, a video essay by Bleeding Skull's Joseph A. Ziemba
• Original trailers
• Behind the scenes photo gallery
• VHS version
• English SDH subtitles