Remember that Sadako vs. Kayako horror film crossover we were talking about awhile ago? they’ve just announced more cast members, opening date and revealed a teaser trailer.
The new cast includes (From left to right):
- Masahiro Komoto as Shinichi Morishige, a university professor investigating the cursed video
- Aimi Satsukawa as Natsumi, who sees the cursed video together with Yūri
- Masanobu Ando as Keizō, a spirit medium
- Misato Tanaka as Fumiko Takagi, Suzuka’s mother
Originally surfacing as an April fools joke, the movie now brings together Sadako from the Ring franchise and Kayako from the Ju-on franchise, with Koji Shiraishi (The Curse, A Record of Sweet Murder) is directing it.
The film will also be starring Mizuki Yamamoto with Koji Shiraishi (The Curse, A Record of Sweet Murder) will be directing. Yamamoto will be playing the character Yūri Kurahashi, who is caught between Sadako and Kayako. It will be her first horror gig but she says she’s a big fan of horror flicks, especially Shiraishi’s The Curse.
The supposed final film in the series, Ju-on: The Final premiered in Japan on June, with Sam Raimi planning to run a reboot of the films for Hollywood. There is also going to be a new the Ring franchise film called Rings in production as well, set to open 1 April 2016.
Sadako vs Kayako will premiere 18 June.
Check out the trailer below!
