Call from Darkness
1981, Japanese. Directed by Yoshitarō Nomura.
A psycho mystery. The one she loves is about to vanish. Is someone luring him out? Or...
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
- Runtime
- 2h 5m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Yoshitarō NomuraDirector
- Asami KobayashiKeiko Inagawa
- Kaoru KobayashiTatsuo Tamura
- Etsushi TakahashiYoshio Aizawa
- Masakane YonekuraToyokichi Kuze
- Junko MiyashitaMitsu Harada
- Mitsuko YorichikaSatsuki Akashi
- Atom ShimojoKuninao Fujimura
- Yutaka NakajimaHiroko Harada
- Tomoe HiiroAizawa's wife
- Yasukiyo UmenoCast
- Eri KanumaRie Harada
- Akiko HoshinoCast
Details
- Released
- 26 September 1981
- Original title
- 真夜中の招待状
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Tatsuo Nogami
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Call from Darkness runs 125 minutes (2h 5m).
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Call from Darkness isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 26 September 1981. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Call from Darkness?
Call from Darkness (1981) was directed by Yoshitarō Nomura and stars Asami Kobayashi, Kaoru Kobayashi, Etsushi Takahashi.