| Tales from the Dead | |
| Director: | Jason Cuadrado |
| Producer: | Monique Yamaguchi Nick Rossier |
| Starring: | Toshiya Agata Leni Ito Sachiko Hayashi Yutaka Takeuchi Nikki Takei Kiyoko Kamei |
| Music: | Valerie Opielski |
| Cinematography: | AJ Raitano |
| Editing: | Jason Cuadrado Joe Faissal |
| Runtime: | 85 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Japanese |
Tales from the Dead is a 2007 American horror film written, directed, and co-edited by Jason Cuadrado. It is an anthology of four ghost stories as told by Tamika, a strange young girl with the ability to communicate with the dead. The tales 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, in the Japanese language with local Japanese actors. Cuadrado did not speak or understand any Japanese at the time of filming.[1]
The film features four stories. The first story 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 second story 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; the third story 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; the final story is a surprise ending for Shoko, a lady of leisure, who has a deadly definition of divorce and meets young Tamika on a dark and foggy road.