| 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 horror film, written and directed by Jason Cuadrado. The film is an anthology of four ghost stories as told by Tamika, a strange young girl with the ability to communicate with the dead. Each tale deals 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 film shot entirely in Los Angeles, in Japanese with local Japanese talent. Writer/director Jason Cuadrado did not know any Japanese at the time of filming.[1]
The film follows a family, newly reunited with their estranged son, faces the remnants of the bad marriage, and evil intentions, of their home's previous owners. An old accountant, trying to set his "books" straight after a life of working for a criminal gang, takes his revenge on the man who wouldn't let him. A businessman, hungering for success and material opulence, finds that time is the only truly scarce resource—and the only one genuinely valuable. Lastly, a surprise ending for Shoko, a lady of leisure, who has a deadly definition of divorce, and meets young Tamika on the wrong dark and foggy road.