It Comes is a 2018 Japanese supernatural horror film about a supernatural entity threatening a family directed by Tetsuya Nakashima (Confessions) from a screenplay co-written with Hideto Iwai. It is based on the novel Bogiwan Ga, Kuru by Ichi Sawamura.
The Toho-Geek Sight production stars Junichi Okada, Haru Kuroki, Nana Komatsu, Takako Matsu, and Satoshi Tsumabuki. The original Japanese title is 来る and Kuru.
Plot:
Convinced that a supernatural force is threatening his wife and their two-year-old daughter, Hideki reaches out to a writer specialising in the occult, and his clairvoyant girlfriend, to rid himself of the entity named Bogiwan…
Reviews:
“Typically for Nakashima, a visual and narrative maximalist, the film is horror as relentlessly busy extravaganza, crammed with everything from wordy explanations to a blizzard of visceral shocks […] The sensory overload, amped to the max in nearly every scene, flattens the shocks as numbness sets in.” The Japan Times
“It Comes devices a long list of plot twist mechanisms—including anagnorisis, analepsis, peripeteia, red herring, non-linear narrative, false antagonist, to name a few—simultaneously and enticingly in one grand, long-winded horror that demands full attention.” Sinekdoks
Cast and characters:
- Junichi Okada … Kazuhiro Nozaki
- Nana Komatsu … Makoto Higa
- Satoshi Tsumabuki … Hideki Tahara
- Haru Kuroki … Kana Tahara
- Takako Matsu … Kotoko Higa
- Munetaka Aoki … Daigo Karakusa
- Taiga … Shigeaki Takanashi
- Rie Shibata … Setsuko Osaka
- Aijyu Shida … Chisa Tahara
- Kentez Asaka … Papa tomo
- Hikaru Ijûin … Store Manager
- Miho Ninagawa
