The Demon (Kichiku)

When a printer has a difficult time making ends meet, he falls behind on supporting his Mistress who leaves their three children with him - much to the fury of his wife, who had been unaware of the affair. When the mistress disappears, it falls on the couple to raise the…

Geoffrey Broomer

Scarier and more disturbing than most movies labeled as horror. The back half a series of child endangerment scenarios as a Ken Ogata tries to find a way to get rid of his son but whatever means necessary. Family rendered as a through monstrous thing, a huge weight on both…

Filipe Furtado

What to do, with three Children and no food? A terribly haunting movie. Some of the most depressing scenes I've seen in a long time, with Shima Iwashita's glaring and piercing eyes, that could inflame a temple, with all the rage and contempt stored up in her, for the…

ZombAid

“New Year’s Eve always terrifies me, life knows nothing of years.” Buk Rewatched this earlier today while the horizon was fading, redness on its mantle, darkness in its heart, remembering my June viewing when Nomura’s film disembowelled me for a first time. I remember that…

Yavor Ivanov

Horror in everyday life. Raw and blunt portrait of human ugliness. A truly grim, haunting, and evil picture. Ken Ogata's Sokichi is a character of insane depth.

Avirup

The Demon is a tragic descent into despair and moral collapse, where the lines between innocence and monstrosity blur into shades of anguish. The film follows Sōkichi, a man whose life unravels after his mistress leaves him with their three children and disappears. His…

Gautam

Poverty is a disease that corrodes the soul, turning even an ordinary person into something monstrous. The Demon is terrifying not because of ghosts or shadows but because the horror here is entirely human. Poverty, desperation and moral decay intertwine to create acts…

SK

The person that recommended this to me said it's a pretty bleak work though I wasn't expecting this to my exhaust my soul thoroughly. Doesn't waste much time setting up it's oppressive settings, first half is marked by the film's contrasting of the children's unawareness of…

Callan Megin

my first yoshitaro nomura film. took me by surprise. this was a painful and heartbreaking watch. the title was fitting; the demons are the adults who chose to have children knowing damn well they couldn't provide for them.  it's a film that was perfectly made to disturb…

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