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Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi series (2012 - 2015)





I watched all 7 episodes of this Japanese mockumentary series about a group of investigators who go looking into Japanese urban legends.















Jin Kudo and Miho Ichikawa host a series where they go investigating Japanese urban legends. With the help of their camera man Tashiro, they film their investigations as they interview witnesses, do research and go to places where alleged strange phenomena has taken place. The legends they investigate are the story of the Slit Mouthed Woman, an alleged human eating Kappa that lives in a lake, sightings of a shivering ghost, another ghost in the toilet of an old abandoned school, and various others. They begin most of their investigations when viewers send them tapes of sightings they captured, and then contact the witnesses and take it from there. With each investigation they complete, they put the footage together and sell it as a DVD for the public to purchase. With each episode they release, their viewership begins to steadily increase. As they continue looking into various cases, they begin to find similarities and soon learn that many of these incidents may be connected in one way or another.
















The series is extremely entertaining. The found footage, mockumentary style, paired with the clashing personalities of the hosts (Kudo is more aggressive and prone to slapping witnesses when he feels they're not being honest, while Ichikawa is the more reserved of the two) make the series a lot of fun. It manages to be creepy, funny, bizarre, sometimes scary, and other times completely outrageous. There are some obvious special effects scenes, but they don't distract from the enjoyment of the series. My personal favorite was episode 4, where they interview two young girls who captured footage of a spirit in the bathroom stall of an abandoned school. While this one starts out like the standard ghost story, it soon becomes intense and wild, featuring elements such as time travel. Each episode is a bit over an hour, with the final two being about 90 minutes each. I watched this cool, weird and fun series on YouTube, from a channel called Asian Horror. Check it out if you're in the mood for an engaging, wild ride into the paranormal.
















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