Diary of the Ghost + Gamaland (Studio Focus Screenings)
SHOWTIME: Friday 8:30 PM - 9:57 PM
GAMALAND SYNOPSIS:A surreal, mid-length psychological J-horror mockumentary directed by Hiroki Nishii and produced by the acclaimed film label NOTHING NEW. The film unfolds the unsettling mystery surrounding a long-abandoned Japanese amusement park known as "Gamaland." When a group of urban explorers uncover a strange, decades-old VHS tape tracking a woman named Miyuki Sawada's final visit to the park, they are inadvertently drawn into a dark, reality-bending nightmare. What begins as a nostalgic infiltration of a decaying tourist trap quickly devolves into a haunting confrontation with an isolated community's deepest, most terrifying secrets.
DIRECTOR: Hiroki Nishii | LANGUAGE: Japanese
YEAR: 2026 | RUNNING TIME: 59 Minutes | COLOR
COUNTRY: Japan | GENRE: Sci Fi / Horror
PURCHASE TICKETS
Diary of the Ghost
SYNOPSIS: Near Lake Kasumigaura, the restaurant **New Kawagishi** sits beneath Japan's largest interdimensional structure. Sho, the owner's son, grows up watching the mysterious phenomenon, eventually inheriting the restaurant from his father. By 2021, the structures around the world become active, fracturing reality into countless parallel worlds and leaving people isolated in separate versions of existence. In one such world, **Sho B** has spent five years wandering alone, broadcasting in the hope that someone will hear him. Desperate, he enters an interdimensional structure. He emerges at **New Kawagishi**, now abandoned and preparing to close. There, he realizes a devastating truth: the strange events that once surrounded the restaurant were caused by his own actions from another world. Overcome with despair, Sho B wonders if he is destined to wander infinitely branching realities forever. Then, just as hope seems lost, he senses that someone may have finally heard his voice.
DIRECTOR: Daigo Hariya + Yôsuke Kobayashi | LANGUAGE: Japanese
YEAR: 2025 | RUNNING TIME: 28 Minutes | COLOR
COUNTRY: Japan | GENRE: Sci Fi + Drama
