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Here’s something you don’t see too often: a Japanese adaptation of an American horror franchise. Usually it’s the other way around, and most of these wonky creations aren’t worth the time it takes to roll your eyes at them. Writer/director Toshikazu Nagae’s 2010 chiller “Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night” is essentially the same as its American counterparts — unsuspecting individuals endure increasingly violent attacks from a mysterious supernatural entity that has taken up residence in their home — and offers little in terms of originality and imagination. However, given that the “Paranormal Activity” series wasn’t designed as a cerebral experience, I suppose you could say that “Tokyo Night” is a resounding success. If this is what you’re looking for, then chances are you’re going to walk away with a smile on your face and a shiver down your spine. Specifically, the film follows...

Thursday, September 16, 2010The Tokyo TimesStupid American Ghosts Overrun Japan! Tokyo Drenched In Fear!By Hiroshi Fukikama -Hiroshi here. Normally my focus is on Godzilla, and his plans to take over and kill all of you fat stupid Americans. But now it seems as if you large ugly burger eaters are getting revenge on us by sending us your spirits and ghosts! You are evil arsehole people!!!Look. We admit. Japanese ghost not very scary. In fact, most are just some annoying stupid little kid who scream like cat getting raped in an alley. Our ghosts are very dumb and really all they can do is pop up in annoying places to try and scare us. So we ignore them and now they all hang out in subways wondering what to do next. Remember boy ghost from movie The Grudge? Owner finally grab him and kick the living shit out of him.

Fans of Paranormal Activity will eventually have a choice of two sequels rather than just one. A parallel second instalment is in preparation for Japanese audiences, under the title Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night.It's not a Japanese-language remake. The entirely new story picks up after the Oren Peli original, and follows a foreign exchange student (via her home-videos, natch) who becomes the new object of the stalker-poltergeist's affection when she visits San Diego, and unwittingly brings it back to her Tokyo family home. Sounds like it bears a Grudge, ho ho.“Paranormal Activity was a huge success with Japanese audiences", said producer Yasutaka Hanada, "and we feel confident that our own Japanese continuation of the franchise can find an enthusiastic genre audience both here and overseas.”Toshikazu Nagae (Ghost System) is directing from his own screenplay, with Noriko Aoyama as his scream queen. The fast-moving production should get its home-territory release in December.

A Japanese sequel to Paranormal Activity called Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night is said to be 'a direct continuation of the events of Oren Peli and Jason Blum's 2007 original and takes place in Japan as a girl who visited San Diego as an exchange student unwittingly brings the evil that haunted Katie Featherston into her family's house'. Full details below. In a story from Screen Daily, the story of Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night  'chronicles the young woman's videotape recordings in their house and the shocking realization of the supernatural force that her family must defeat. Toshikazu Nagae is directing the project from his own screenplay and Aoi Nakamura and Noriko Aoyama star....

Hey demonic spirits need vacations too and that's exactly the case in what appears to be a spin-off movie venturing to Japan. This is not the American sequel Paranormal Activity 2 which hits the states this October, this is an entirely different movie titled Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night (sounds like a bitch'n racing movie doesn't it?)...

Our friend Ryan Rotten from Styd says the spin-off sequel will "center around a foreign exchange student visiting San Diego, who unwittingly brings the demonic presence that haunted the first film back to Japan with him. The story will be told via the student’s video recordings."

Toshikazu Nagae is directing the project from his own screenplay and Aoi Nakamura and Noriko Aoyama star. Stay tuned for more Pa information as we get it.

Source: Styd

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Not to be mistaken with the upcoming “Paranormal Activity 2″ that’s due out on Halloween of this year, this is apparently a completely different movie, a spin-off sequel if you will, that will take the franchise to Japan. (You know, sorta like a reverse “Grudge”, where the franchise came to the U.S.?) Styd says the spin-off sequel will center around a foreign exchange student visiting San Diego, who unwittingly brings the demonic presence that haunted the first film back to Japan with him. The story will be told via the student’s video recordings. I got $50 bucks that says a chick with long hair shows up at one point. Toshikazu Nagae (an old hand with ghost movies, including 2002′s “Ghost System”) will direct, and Aoi Nakamura (“Beck”) and Noriko Aoyama (“Legendary Assassin”, below) will star.

Japanese audiences are in for a wild Tokyo Night . Presidio is at work on a sequel to Paranormal Activity called Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night . The film picks up after Oren Peli's film and tells of a foreign exchange student visiting San Diego who brings the demonic presence that haunted the first film to Japan. The story is told via the student's video recordings. Toshikazu Nagae is directing the project from his own screenplay and Aoi Nakamura and Noriko Aoyama star. Interesting, as Tokyo Night is strangely mirroring the same turn The Grudge series took. By the third Grudge film, a supernatural force follows an American to Chicago from Japan. We're volleying evil spirits!