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8	''Reincarnation'' (a.k.a. ''Rinne'') is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed by Creator/TakashiShimizu. Preceded by ''Film/{{Infection}}'' (''Kansen'') and ''Premonition'' (''Yogen''), ''Reincarnation'' is the third film in producer Takashige Ichise's six-part J-Horror Theater series.
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10	35 years ago, a series of murders took place in a hotel. A college professor, Omori, had apparently gone mad and, as part of his wish to understand [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnation]], filmed himself killing 11 of the hotel guests and employees, [[PaterFamilicide as well as his own children]], before committing suicide. In the present day, horror movie director Matsumura decides to make a movie, ''Melody'', about the massacre. As the date of the shoot draws near, Nagisa Sugiura, the actress who is set to star as Professor Omori's daughter, is haunted by the ghosts of the victims and visions of the killings. However, Nagisa is not the only person who is seeing these visions...
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12	The film was part of the Creator/AfterDarkHorrorfest film festival.
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15	!!This film contains examples of:
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17	* AgeLift: In-universe. Omori's daughter was a young child; Nagisa is an adult. Also inverted, in the case of [[spoiler:Professor Omori being much older than Nagisa]].
18	* ArcWords: ''"Together Forever"''
19	* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Poor, poor Nagisa: she is cast as the professor's young daughter in the movie, and begins to see visions of his past victims. Eventually, she ends up incarcerated at a mental hospital.]]
20	* CreepyChild: The ghost of Omori's daughter.
21	* CreepyDoll: This film contains the creepiest one you may ''ever'' see.
22	* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Yuka has a reputation as a bit of an oddball due to her claims she has had a past life. As it turns out, she's very much correct.
23	%%* DemonicPossession
24	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Several of the characters (main and supporting) [[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies are killed throughout the course of the film]], and [[BreakTheCutie Nagisa is driven insane and ends up in a mental institution]]. To make matters worse, it is implied that Professor Omori's personality takes over hers - thus proving the professor's theory correct.]]
25	* FilmWithinAFilm: The director decides to shoot a film named ''Memory'', which is a cinematic adaptation of the infamous hotel massacre.
26	* {{Foreshadowing}}: A couple of blink-and-you'll-miss-it examples: Nagisa [[spoiler: touches her throat a couple of times - Professor Omori stabbed himself in the throat.]] Also, Yayoi touches her chest after Yuka shows off her birthmark - as it turns out, [[spoiler:Yayoi is the reincarnation of Omori's daughter... who was stabbed in the chest.]]
27	%%* GhostlyGoals
28	* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: Omori's horrific experiment ends up completely proving his theory.]]
29	* {{Homage}}: The entire movie was heavily inspired by ''Film/TheShining''. People being forced by their job to gather in an empty hotel where an unhinged man massacred a dozen of people (including his own family), only to be victims of ghostly activity (including a [[CreepyChild creepy little girl]] and [[{{Reincarnation}} feel like they have been here before]])... In fact several scenes are directly lifted from ''The Shining'', including a shot of a ball bouncing down a hallway of the hotel before knocking on room 227, and a scene where a character looks over a miniature of the hotel only to have a daydream of herself inside - similar to Jack looking at the hedge maze replica.
30	%%* JumpScare
31	* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: That is, kill pretty much ''all'' of the cuties. However, [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness what Nagisa sees]] happen to them [[LeftHanging may not reflect]] [[UncertainDoom their actual fates]], given that Matsumura (Daisuke reincarnate) was [[SnapBack presumably well enough]] for the crew to be preoccupied with blanketing Nagisa, in front of a camera he was operating without any tripod.]]
32	* LeftHanging: [[spoiler:[[UncertainDoom Did all the victims' current incarnations really die?]] If so, who greenlit the footage of Nagisa losing it on-set for the final film? How does that footage [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext fit into the context]] of the planned film?]]
33	* MarionetteMotion: [[spoiler:The doll]], and the hotel maid's ghost when she's hanging from the ceiling.
34	%%* MindScrew
35	%%* MyCarHatesMe
36	%%* PsychologicalHorror
37	* {{Reincarnation}}: Well, of course, it's in the title: the whole premise of the plot is that a professor is hellbent to prove the existence of the reincarnation phenomenon, and goes to great lengths to test his theory. [[spoiler: In the final scene, the professor's soul/mind seems to dominate the mind of their modern incarnation, a teenage girl named Nagisa.]]
38	* ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait: Yuka's birthmark turns out to have been indicative of the way her past life died.
39	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Nagisa is not the reincarnation of Omori's daughter, as is initially believed... but of Omori himself.]]
40	%%* ScarsAreForever: Yuka firmly believes the birthmark around her throat was from being strangled to a death in a previous life. As the thusly named entry on this list testifies, TheCuckoolanderWasRight.
41	* SerialKiller: Professor Omori, intent on proving the existence of reincarnation, decides to kill his children, as well the part of the hotel guests and personnel, and lastly himself.
42	%%* TomatoSurprise: See TheReveal above.
43	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Some of the jump scares are included in the trailer, including the one featuring the hotel maid's ghost.
44	* TwistEnding: Part of the reveal: [[spoiler: Nagisa is not the professor's daughter's incarnation, but ''his''. While in her padded cell, the professor's widow - who survived her husband's massacre at the hotel - brings Nagisa their daughter's old doll. Nagisa then shakes and trembles before the object, until she begins to show a sinister smile, implying that, in the end, the mad professor ''was'' proven right, after all.]]
45	* UncertainDoom: See KillTheCutie.

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