• Japan-Taiwan.
• Direction: Kenichi Ugana.
• Production: Tsuyoshi Hitomi, Hiroaki Saizu, Ling Ming Chih, Hiroyuki Takase, Zara Lin / TKSplus.
• Coproduction: Shih Hua Liu, Rikii Ryu.
• Screenplay: Kenichi Ugana.
• Photography: Moritada Iju.
• Music: Hiroyuki Onogawa.
• Edition: Osamu Suzuki.
• Cast: Yukino Kaizu, Yu, Mimi Shao, Shiho, Ray Fan, Lin Tammy.

We know about Japanese horror, but not Taiwanese witchcraft, however much we may revere Nie Yinniang, the imposing death-dealer of The Assassin (2015), Hou Hsiao-hsien's wuxia masterpiece. The Curse will help dispel our ignorance a little, as here the two Japanese protagonists and their dead friend, who continues uploading stories to social media, become the victims of a Taiwanese sorceress, offering a fine demonstration of the malicious arts of the island witch. The film's brutal opening features a girl running desperately along a highway, before being run over by a huge truck, and her abandoned corpse devoured by a dog. The Curse is an update of the technologies used in the immortal Ringu (1998). While there they were videotapes, here mobiles become the transmitters of Evil. And yes, Airi's eyes bleed.