St. John's Wort 2001

Overview

St. John's Wort is a 2001 horror and science fiction feature film directed by Ten Shimoyama. The film stars Megumi Okina, Yoichiro Saito, Koji Ohkura, and Reiko Matsuo. The plot follows Nami, who has been creating artwork for a new video game based on images she has been seeing in her dreams. Accompanied by a game producer, who is her boyfriend, she travels out to an abandoned, decrepit mansion she just inherited that seems to match her visions. As they explore the old house to film backgrounds for the game, Nami begins having more visions of a forgotten childhood. Eventually, she comes across a photo of twin infants labeled Nami and Naomi. While moving from room to room, an unseen person appears to be watching them from a hidden room. The film was released in Japan on January 27, 2001, and has a duration of one hour and twenty-five minutes. It was later shown at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada, on July 13, 2001.