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This listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover was limited to 1,000 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover. Since 2004, Bleeding Skull has explored otherworldly cinema through reviews, books, and home video releases. We shine a light on independent genre films that have flown under the radar but deserve to be seen by all. Fangoria has called Bleeding Skull “The go-to encyclopedia for trash, bizarre, and shot-on-video cinema,” while Vice referred to it as “like a fever dream glimpse into parallel worlds". Visit us at BLEEDINGSKULL.COM. 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
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fuji_jukai.mov (2016)
84 min
A smartphone is found during a TV shoot for a show about Jukai near Mount Fuji. The phone contains videos of three high school girls who met online.