https://vo.rs/tags/koji-shiraishi/Latest from the Koji-Shiraishi desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/noroi-the-curse-the-found-footage-film-that-out-blairs-blair/<p>Found footage is a genre of shortcuts. It exists, mostly, so that a film with no money can generate dread from a shaky camera and an unseen threat, and the overwhelming majority of these films run out of ideas twenty minutes before they run out of runtime. <em>Noroi: The Curse</em> is the great exception. It is a two-hour Japanese mockumentary from 2005, directed by Koji Shiraishi, and it commits to its own reality so thoroughly, layers its evidence so patiently, and connects its threads so cunningly that by the end you have stopped watching a horror film and started watching a case file that is closing in on you. It is, I would argue, the most sustained achievement the entire form has produced.</p>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000