Never After Dark (2026)
Director: Dave Boyle Run Time: 104 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2026
Starring: Kento Kaku, Kurumi Inagaki, Moeka Hoshi, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Tae Kimura
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
About the film:
A wandering medium, Airi spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy Airi’s experience. As she digs deeper into the house’s past, 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.
“Ravishingly horrific. A genuinely cinematic experience.”
—Screen Anarchy
About the filmmaker:
Dave Boyle is a writer, director and producer who works in both English and Japanese-language film and television. His feature films include Big Dreams Little Tokyo (2006), White on Rice (2009), Surrogate Valentine (2011), Daylight Savings (2012), and the award-winning mystery Man from Reno (2014), which was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards. He also served as the showrunner and lead director for Netflix’s hit 2024 series House of Ninjas. A longtime student of Japanese language and culture, Boyle brings his cross-cultural perspective to Never After Dark (2026), which won the Midnight Audience Award at the 2026 SXSW Film Festival.
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