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Comedian Kazuleiser of Maple Chogokin has reportedly named 1980’s The Trembling Tongue (Furueru Shita) as the “horror movie that traumatized him” during a YouTube talk with Pekopa’s Tayu Shoin-ji. The film follows a five-year-old girl who contracts tetanus after cutting her finger while playing in the mud, depicting her convulsions and her family’s anguish; the child actress’s harrowingly realistic performance has been talked about for decades. On 5ch, a thread debating whether The Trembling Tongue even counts as horror — or is really a medical drama — took off, with many posters sharing memories of being terrified watching it on TV as kids.
On the 29th, Kazuleiser of the comedy duo Maple Chogokin appeared on the YouTube channel “Kazuleiser and Shoin-ji’s Chill Room [Official]” with Pekopa’s Tayu Shoin-ji, and talked about a horror movie that shocked him.
This episode’s theme was “horror movies.” Asked which film scared him the most, Kazuleiser named 1980’s The Trembling Tongue.
It depicts a five-year-old girl who hurts her finger while playing in the mud. A few days later, strange symptoms appear, plunging the girl and her parents into a nightmarish ordeal.
Source: sirabee.com / Original article here
What people said
And that's checkmate.
For some reason horror fans always recommend it as a horror movie.
Now I want a chocolate-filled bun. (a callback to a scene in the film)
It was clearly marketed as a horror movie.
Traumatized me as a kid.
Same goes for Tanoshingo or Takei Sou.
Totally get that
The look of resentment on the fleeing samurai's faces as they're killed is scary enough to leave a scar.
The movie itself isn't really horror, it's just a story about an illness.
Scared the hell out of me
I used to do impressions of the mom screaming 'Open your mouth!' so she wouldn't bite her tongue during the convulsions.
Watching this might make more people think 'I don't want kids if this is what could happen'
The girl herself has it worst, but it's hard to watch as a bystander too.
Pulling out all her teeth just because she might bite her tongue.
I heard people with no pain perception sometimes get their teeth pulled too, since they end up chewing through their own cheek.
It's like a mashup of a pediatric-ward drama and Building Blocks Crumbling.
They should make more movies like this for vaccination awareness campaigns.
was terrifying.
Kazuleiser probably found out about it back then too.
The one where Furutachi ends up as just an upper half, right.
The drama 'Pediatric Ward' was terrifyingly intense.
All this guy ever makes news for is promoting this YouTube channel.
Background and Points of Debate
The Trembling Tongue is a 1980 Japanese film directed by Yoshitaro Nomura, depicting a child who contracts tetanus after injuring herself playing in mud, suffering full-body convulsions, and her family’s struggle alongside her. While the content leans closer to a medical drama, it has long been rerun in late-night TV slots and gained a reputation by word of mouth as a “hidden horror masterpiece” — which is the backdrop for the thread’s comments calling it “not horror” or “a different genre.” The source of its fear isn’t special effects or monsters but the depiction of a real, possible illness and convulsions, which is likely why it reads as a dread that goes beyond fiction. There was also a post about what became of the child actress afterward, though this has not been verified. The thread also included comments from people who had actually experienced tetanus themselves or cared for a family member with it, broadening the discussion from film review into shared real-life experience.
*This article is an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Kazuleiser confesses the ‘horror movie that traumatized him’ — on The Trembling Tongue: “The child’s acting is so real it’s terrifying”.”
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