Hanagatami (Region B) Terror Films became an equally chilling film

became an equally chilling film in the hands of writer-director Richard Brooks

In 'Garth Marenghi's Dark Place'

There might be a crunched corner or two

he discovers more than he bargained for

Hanagatami (Region B) Terror Films became an equally chilling filmIn 2016, Nobuhiko Obayashi, the director of the cult Japanese film Hausu was diagnosed with lung cancer and given only a few months to live. Despite not much time left, for what was supposed to be his final film he adapted Kazuo Dans 1937 novella Hanagatami, his passion project 40 years in the making. In the spring of 1941, sixteen year old Toshihiko leaves Amsterdam to attend school in Karatsu, a small town on the western coast of Japan, where his