is a 2007 Japanese satiric Japanese horror film produced by Shochiku Corporation and directed by

Masato Harada is a Japanese film director, film critic, and sometimes an actor; he is best known to foreign audiences as Omura in ''The Last Samurai'' and as Mr Mita in ''Fearless''. In both his acting roles he portrayed the villain who wants Japan to westerni ...

. Many of the cast are members of the

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idol

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Synopsis

Anzu Natsuno ( Yuko Oshima), a student at an all-girl high school, is walking in the hallway when she hears a mysterious melody coming from the auditorium. There, she finds her classmate Kana (

Atsuko Maeda is a Japanese actress and singer. She is a former member of the idol girl group AKB48, and was one of the most prominent members in the group at the time, regarded as the group's "absolute ace", "immovable center", and the "Face of AKB." After ...

) singing and Anzu's soon shocked when she sees Kana committing suicide after the song ends. A few days later, Anzu is approached by magazine columnist Riku Nagase ( Ryuhei Matsuda), who explains that he's investigating an

urban legend An urban legend (sometimes contemporary legend, modern legend, urban myth, or urban tale) is a genre of folklore comprising stories or fallacious claims circulated as true, especially as having happened to a "friend of a friend" or a family m ...

of ''Densen Uta'', or the ''infectious song'', that turns whomever sings the song suicidal. Riku convinces Anzu and her friends to sing the song to see if there's any truth to the urban legend. They reluctantly agree and sing the song. Over next few days the girls, one by one, kill themselves, leaving Anzu to fight for her life. Coming closer to the source of the song, Anzu finds out about an unimaginable secret relating to her past and the song.

Cast

* Ryuhei Matsuda as Riku Nagase * Yūsuke Iseya as Taichi *

as Kana Takahashi * Yuko Oshima as Apricot (Anzu) Natsuno * Sayaka Akimoto as Shuri Matsuda * Haruna Kojima as Kiriko *

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as Ranko Kaburagi * Hiroshi Abe as Jake *

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as Ai * Minami Minegishi as Rumi Inoue * Erena Ono as Sae Miyaguchi * Tomomi Kasai as Asuka Kumoi *

Kayo Noro is a Japanese singer and entertainer who is represented by the talent agency, Ohta Production. She is a former member of idol groups AKB48 and SDN48 SDN48 (read "S.D.N. Forty-eight", short for Saturday Night 48) was a Japanese idol girl grou ...

as Miki Oribe * Sae Miyazawa as C-chan *Michiru Hoshino as Michiko Goi *Shoko Ikezu as Riki Nagase / Enma *Satoru Matsuo as Otaku Soldier *Yasunari Takeshima as Bazooka *Toshihiro Yashiba as Shin'ya Kudô *Yasuto Kosuda as Anzu's Father

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2007 films Films directed by Masato Harada Japanese horror films AKB48 Shochiku films Films about curses Films about music and musicians Films about suicide 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-horror-film-stub

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