I started watching Shiraishi's "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi" movies 0 ▲ Laura Michet 2 hours ago · Film & TV · hide · 0 comments My favorite found-footage horror director is Koji Shiraishi, the director of Noroi - kind of a cult classic - and Occult, which is less well-known but equally fantastic. Noroi is both a found-footage horror story and an elaborate, loving recreation of Japanese daytime television. Occult is an incredibly funny (but dark) self-insert story where Shiraishi plays the slimiest, most unpleasant version of himself. I've watched a bunch of his stuff, and I've liked it all! I haven't watched his "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi" series, but I found it on Youtube, so I've watched several in the last few days. These are an interconnected series of just-barely feature-length films - the first is 70 minutes - about a pair of paranormal investigators who are desperate to sell DVDs of supernatural footage. I gather that these were direct-to-video releases. (Direct-to-video material in Japan was historically more well-regarded than it is in the US.) Here's the first one: All the funniest found-footage… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.