'The Curse'

Source: Rights Cube

‘The Curse’

EXCLUSIVE: The Curse, the latest genre outing from Japanese director Kenichi Ugana, has been sold to multiple territories following turns at Fantastic Fest and Sitges.

The horror film, which is repped by Japan’s Rights Cube, has been acquired for the UK, Australia and New Zealand via Blue Finch; Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar via Abnormal Studios; Malaysia via Antenna Entertainments; and Hong Kong and Taiwan via 66cc Company.

A Japanese-Taiwanese co-production, the title is about a young woman whose investigation of strange, cryptic social media posts leads her to Taiwan. The film is produced by Hiroyuki Takase and Zara Lin and executive produced by Yusuke Suzuki of Rights Cube. It stars Yukino Kaizu (2024 NHK taiga drama Dear Radiance), YU (Ugana’s We Are Aliens), and Ray Fan (Yi Yi: A One and a Two). It will be released in Japan in January via Rights Cube and T Joy.

Ugana is currently writing the script for a Japan-Canada co-production announced between Rights Cube Japan, Federgreen Entertainment and Sine Media Inc. in May of this year, and is also prepping a separate Japan-Brazil co-production.

The director’s The Gesuidouz debuted in the Midnight Madness section at Toronto last year and his horror film Incomplete Chairs, also from Rights Cube, premiered at the Leiden International Film Festival in the Netherlands last month.

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