Séance (2000) on Netflix
NR20001h 37mCrimeDramaFantasyHorrorThriller
Junko sees and speaks with spirits, a gift that makes ordinary work hard to hold. When a kidnapped girl hides in her husband Koji's equipment case, the couple keep her hidden.
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- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb6.7/102,398 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes80%
Plot summary
Junko Sato is a waitress whose psychic powers let her see and speak with spirits, and those same powers disturb her daily life and make a steady job hard to keep. She wants to build a business on her gift, yet convincing a skeptical world is a daunting task. Hayakawa, a young psychology graduate student, brings her into his research on the paranormal, and through him she joins the police hunt for a girl kidnapped by a former officer. By coincidence the child gets away from her captor and hides in the equipment case of Koji, Junko's husband and a sound technician. The couple find the unconscious girl at home and decide to keep her secret while Junko leads the police toward her, hoping the case will prove her abilities and keep them from being blamed for the kidnapping.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Séance (2000)
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- Kiyoshi Kurosawa shot Séance in two weeks on what he describes as a low budget of around $200,000 to $300,000.
- When Kiyoshi Kurosawa made Séance, he had no idea the novel had already been adapted as a 1964 film directed by Bryan Forbes and starring Richard Attenborough and Kim Stanley.
- Show Aikawa was cast as a Shinto priest in Séance even though Japanese audiences saw him only as a yakuza movie star, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa wanted to show he was not like a yakuza at all.
- Séance was made for Japanese television, but Kiyoshi Kurosawa shot it on film and hoped film festivals would invite it; they did, which he said was not normal for a TV drama.
- Working for television on Séance, Kiyoshi Kurosawa could not use shocking scenes and few people die, because that was not allowed on television.
