Never After Dark
Official Trailer

A Certified Fresh Japanese ghost story from Dave Boyle

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Available on DVD & Blu-ray™ December 15

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About the Film

A wandering medium, Airi (Moeka Hoshi, “Shogun”), spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living accompanied by her constant companion: her dead sister Miku (Kurumi Inagaki). Summoned to exorcise a spirit from an isolated country house by the new owner, Teiko (Tae Kimura), she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy Airi’s experience. Faced with skepticism from Teiko’s son, Gunji (Kento Kaku), she digs deeper into the house’s past until a secret comes to light — and Airi finds herself hunted by a far more unpredictable force. For the first time, her greatest adversary is not the supernatural, but the living.

Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, Never After Dark was called “ravishingly horrific” by Screen Anarchy and “sensationally spooky and devilishly entertaining” by Mashable.

Directed by: Dave Boyle

Starring: Moeka Hoshi, Kurumi Inagaki, Kento Kaku, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Bokuzō Masana and Tae Kimura

Runtime: 1 hr 45 min

Language: Japanese with English subtitles

Premiere: SXSW 2026