きさらぎ駅 AKA Kisaragi Station

5.6/10
Drama
2022
1h 22m
PG-13

a Japanese supernatural horror thriller directed by Jirô Nagae, starring Yuri Tsunematsu and Miyu Honda, about a folklore student investigating an infamous urban legend of a mysterious, unmapped railway station. As the legend’s clues pull her deeper into isolation and fear, she confronts the supernatural mystery that blurs the line between myth and reality.

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n the quiet corridors of Japanese folklore and online mystery, Kisaragi Station (2022) emerges as a chilling adaptation of one of Japan’s most enduring urban legends — the myth of a phantom train station that exists between worlds and reality. The film follows Haruna Tsunematsu, a university folklore student whose life is shaped by curiosity and unresolved stories that refuse to die. Haruna chooses the eerie “Kisaragi Station” legend as the subject of her graduation thesis, wanting to uncover the truth behind an internet tale that has haunted message boards since 2004 and blurred the lines between myth and reality. When she begins digging into the story, she discovers Junko Hayama, a former teacher who claims to have experienced the station firsthand — a place that shouldn’t exist on any map yet did appear to her in a dreamlike transition from a familiar commuter line in Shizuoka. Drawn by the disturbing details of this tale and the possibility that something supernatural might be real, Haruna ventures into the forgotten landscapes of the legend with a determined — and increasingly uneasy — spirit.

The movie weaves suspense with psychological dread as Haruna and her small group of collaborators follow clues that seem grounded in the everyday world — empty platforms, old railway timetables, abandoned tracks — yet lead deeper into the uncanny. Each scene ratchets up tension through quiet moments: a distant echo of a train horn beneath an overcast sky, the unsettling solitude of a deserted station platform, and the abrupt silence when cell phones lose signal near untouched tracks. The station itself — Kisaragi — sits on no railway timetable; no conductor acknowledges its existence. Yet it looms in memory and maps of folklore, an invitation into the liminal space between life as known and horror as unknown. The characters wander through tunnels where shadows seem to shift of their own accord, and every call to the outside world is met with static or denial, reinforcing the isolation of a place that’s both everywhere and nowhere.

As the night deepens, the team’s belief in logic fractures. People begin disappearing, echoing the original tale of Hasumi — the commuter whose real-time posts about arriving at a non-existent station captured public imagination and vanished without a trace. In that earlier legend, Hasumi’s final message spoke of strange companions and a drained battery before she went silent forever, leaving only the unanswerable question of what became of her. The film parallels this disappearance with Haruna’s own descent into uncertainty and fear, blurring the lines between her academic investigation and survival. Eerie figures appear momentarily at the edge of frame; motionless signs flicker without power; and the station’s lights seem to pulse like a heartbeat without rhythm or reason. Every revelation feels like both closure and betrayal — each answer conjures deeper questions about the nature of the station and what waits beyond its threshold.

By the final sequences, Kisaragi Station becomes less a story about a place than a journey through the human psyche’s darkest alleys. The station is more than an abandoned stop on a forgotten rail line; it is a mirror for fear, obsession, and the yearning to believe in something just beyond understanding. Haruna’s fate — like Hasumi’s — is a testament to the horror that awaits when myth bleeds into the real world, and curiosity becomes captivity. As the camera pulls back from the deserted platform, the impact lingers: a station that shouldn’t exist, people who vanished without explanation, and a question that remains unanswered — did they find the truth, or did the station find them first? Kisaragi Station stands as a haunting meditation on digital folklore, the power of collective legend, and the terror of stepping into a world where reality dissolves into the unknown.