Séance (2000 film)

Séance
Based onSéance on a Wet Afternoon
by Mark McShane
Written byKiyoshi Kurosawa
Tetsuya Onishi
Directed byKiyoshi Kurosawa
StarringKōji Yakusho
Jun Fubuki
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
Production
ProducersAtsuyuki Shimoda
Takehiko Tanaka
Yasuyuki Uemura
CinematographyTakahide Shibanushi
EditorJun'ichi Kikuchi
Running time97 minutes
Budgetapprox $200,000–$300,000 (US)
Original release
ReleaseMay 12, 2001 (2001-05-12)

Séance (降霊, Kōrei) is a 2000 Japanese television horror film directed and co-written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, based on the 1961 novel Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Mark McShane. The novel had previously been adapted in a 1964 British film of the same name.

It stars Kōji Yakusho, Jun Fubuki and Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, and follows the married couple of Koji and Junko, the latter being a psychic that can communicate with spirits. It premiered in Switzerland on August 7, 2000, and on May 12, 2001 in Japan.