''Bashira'' is a 2021 American horror film directed by

Nickson Fong Nickson Fong (born 1969) is a Singaporean computer graphics artist and the first Singaporean to receive an Academy Award. Early life Sent by his father for art lessons since three, Fong studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design after get ...

based on a Japanese legend. It was selected to festivals Cine-Excess, TerrorMolins, Shocker Fest International Film Festival,

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, among others.

Synopsis

After suffering a series of nightmares with bizarre and mysterious appearances, Andy (

Liam Aiken Liam Pádraic Aiken (born January 7, 1990) is an American actor. He has starred in films such as '' Stepmom'' (1998), '' Road to Perdition'' (2002), and ''Good Boy!'' (2003), and played Klaus Baudelaire in ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortun ...

), an electronic musician, and Lela (Mitzi Akaha), an aspiring singer, end up embarking on parallel journeys in search of answers.

Cast

- Andy Monrovia * Mitzi Akaha - Lela Cavanaugh *

Kiki Sukezane is a Japanese actress from Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, working mostly in American productions. Biography Kiki Sukezane was born to parents both of Samurai descent, into a local family noted for its ancestry, whose surname can be traced back to sw ...

- Maya Shitara * Emma Caymares - Aliss Lopez * Brandon Gill - Chris Marshall * Akiko Shima - Yone Kume * Eddy Toru Ohno - Kazuo Kariya *

Colin Cunningham Colin Alexander Cunningham (born 1966) is an American television and film actor. Cunningham is best known for his roles as John Pope in the TNT science fiction series '' Falling Skies'' and as Major/Lt.Col Paul Davis on ''Stargate SG-1'' and ...

- John Cavanaugh * Sayuri Oyamada - Yoko Cavanaugh * Akiko Fujiwara - Young Yoko Cavanaugh * Toru Uchikado - Michihisa Kariya * Takuma Anzai - Kenji Okazaki * Sono Hideko - Setsuko Shitara * Josie DiVincenzo - Sharon Monrovia * Alana de Freitas - Dani Cavanaugh * '' Nick Sakai'' - Limousine Driver

Production

In early 2014, Nickson Fong and Eko Nonoyama began developing the screenplay, with Eko's original Japanese screenplay being completed in 2017. Later in 2017, Los Angeles filmmaker Todd Ocvirk created an adapted version of the screenplay in english. On the 2018 production set, producer Steve Krone said, "It's not a gory of violent horror film. I would describe it as more of a sort of supernatural kind of ghost story kind of horror film."

Principal photography Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production. Personnel Besides the main film personnel, such as the ...

began in

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in July 2018, and was initially scheduled to be released in 2019, which it did not. Some of the locations include WNED-TV studio, Statler City, Aurora, Little Rock City and

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, Japan.

Soundtrack

On November 6, 2021, the main theme song for Bashira was released on their official YouTube channel. The track titled "Can You Hear Me?" a music by Fumitake Igarashi & David Sisko performed by Katharine L. Feeley and Mark Matters. *"Can You Hear Me?" (Katharine L. Feeley and Mark Matters) *"Ocean of Embers" (featuring

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) * "Bashira Cursed Song" (Punk Metak Version) (feat. Septimo Cain)

Awards

* 2021 TerrorMolins **Videodrome ** Best Original Soundtrack (Can Your Hear Me?) * 2021 Bleedingham Horror Film Festival **Best Picture

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 8065292
Official YouTube
2021 horror films 2021 films 2021 independent films 2020s English-language films American independent films Films based on Japanese myths and legends Films shot in Buffalo, New York Films shot in Japan 2020s Japanese-language films 2021 directorial debut films 2021 multilingual films American multilingual films 2020s American films English-language horror films English-language independent films