Tales from the Dead is a 2007 Japanese-language American horror film written, directed, and co-edited by Jason Cuadrado. It is an anthology of four ghost stories as told by a strange young girl with the ability to communicate with the dead; the stories deal with loss, pain, and vengeance as the spirits who tell them attempt to put things right in the world of the living.
The film is notable for being a Japanese horror shot entirely in Los Angeles with local Japanese actors speaking their native language, despite Cuadrado not speaking or understanding any Japanese at the time of filming.[1]
Synoopsis
The film features four stories: "Home Sweet Home", "The Dirty Business of Time", "Chalk", and "Shoko the Widow". "Home Sweet Home" follows a family, newly reunited with their estranged son, as they face the remnants of the bad marriage and evil intentions of their home's previous owners; "The Dirty Business of Time" is about an old accountant trying to set his "books" straight after a lifetime of working for a criminal gang, and his revenge on the man who won't let him; "Chalk" follows a businessman, hungering for success and material wealth, who finds that time is the only truly scarce resource and the only one genuinely valuable; and "Shoko the Widow" is about a lady of leisure who has a deadly definition of divorce and meets young girl on a dark and foggy road.
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