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The Locker

The Locker

The most terrifying Japanese legend comes alive!

20044.71h 11m

Overview

A group of teenagers unleash a curse when they use haunted public lockers in Shibuya. Supposedly, if you leave a gift in one of the lockers you will be lucky in love. However, the results are anything but lucky as a creepy female ghost with long black hair soon shows up to kill them off one by one.

Directed by Kei Horie
Written by Osamu Fukutani, Issei Shibata
Produced by Issei Shibata
Box OfficeBudget: $1.0M0

Top Cast

Asami Mizukawa

Asami Mizukawa

Rieka Yajima

Chisato Morishita

Chisato Morishita

Yuna Matsukawa

Fumina Hara

Fumina Hara

Megumi Muramatsu

Maki Horikita

Maki Horikita

Kubo Ayano

Soko Wada

Soko Wada

Akihiko

M

Mayuka Suzuki

Ai Fukami

Tomohisa Yuge

Tomohisa Yuge

Keitaro

T

Tsugumi Shinohara

Themes & Keywords

surrealismurban legendtokyo, japanlockerghost storyghostmurder mysterysupernatural power

About The Locker

The Locker is a horror, thriller film released in 2004 exploring themes of surrealism, urban legend, tokyo, japan, locker, ghost story, ghost. Directed by Kei Horie, it stars Asami Mizukawa, Chisato Morishita, Fumina Hara. A group of teenagers unleash a curse when they use haunted public lockers in Shibuya. Supposedly, if you leave a gift in one of the lockers you will be lucky in love. However, the results are anything but lucky as a creepy female ghost with long black hair soon shows up to kill them off one by one.

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