Ao Oni (film)

A woman, Anna, is running around a house from an unseen entity. She closes herself in a room as a voice calls to her. The door opens, revealing the figure of her brother, Naoki. The scene then changes back in time to Naoki listening to a guitarist singing on the street. He then runs into the road and gets killed in a traffic accident. Anna is then seen placing flowers by the place of the accident a while afterward and encounters a boy named Shun being bullied by Takuro and his friends.

The scene switches back and forth to the terrified Anna in the room, and her past with Shun. A young Anna notices the scar on Shun's hand and asks about it, which Shun avoids answering. Takuro then appears and bullies Shun. Anna is seen looking back as she walks home.

Back to the present, Takuro and Shun walk to an empty house. Upon reaching the house, Mika and Takeshi are already waiting for them. Meanwhile, Hiroshi is collecting a soil sample nearby, then goes to check the house and meet the group. The door suddenly swings open. Takuro enters the house with his stuff, and the rest follow. Anna is seen following them and entering the house as well. As they all enter, the door is locked and cannot be reopened. A smashing noise is heard upstairs and Hiroshi goes up to check by himself.

All except for Shun receive unknown calls simultaneously, but no one is speaking. It is shown that the signals are gone. Right after, something seems to pass them in the next room. Takeshi becomes paranoid and starts running around the house to hide. Shun encounters Anna and they move together to find a way out, while Shun points out that he feels that he has seen that something before but cannot remember.

Takuro and Mika open the door to the basement, then Takuro goes down, while Mika waits upstairs. Hearing something, Mika checks on the room next door and notices an opening, where she looks directly into a large eye. Horrified, Mika runs away and is found by Hiroshi. After being found hiding, Takeshi mumbles about Naoki's death but is cut off by Mika. Saying that he will be killed by Takuro as he talks about it again. Takeshi refuses to move, so Hiroshi suggests that he stays there and they will pick him up when they find the way out.

As Hiroshi and Mika leave the room, they meet up with Anna and Shun. Mika questions Anna's presence, but Hiroshi diverts the questions. They then go together to check around the house. Meanwhile, Takeshi gets a phone call, but no response from the other end. He then hears Takuro calling him from outside the cupboard, so he opens the door as a big blue hand grabs his head. The group hears Takeshi's scream and comes back to check on him.

As they reach the room, they see the door open and Takeshi, bleeding, is thrown out. He asks for help before being dragged back, and the door closes. As the group enters the room, they find Takeshi's dismembered body. Anna and Hiroshi pressure Mika about Takuro's whereabouts and Naoki, but Mika refuses to tell them and runs away, chased by Hiroshi. Anna confronts Shun who describes that this event is the same as the game he created.

Mika goes back to Takuro and begs him to leave immediately, which he takes lightly. Mika then goes to Takuro and seemingly seduces him just to steal his keys to the house. Takuro ignores her and continues with his work. Mika rushes to the main door, but the key does not seem to work. As she hears noises, she goes to check and encounters the Blue Demon, which then kills Mika.

With Shun's knowledge of the game, they continue finding the keys and items to move forward inside the house. They eventually reach a room with a blood-stained piano. As they observe the piano, Mika is heard calling Shun through the door. Anna stops him from opening the door, saying that Mika will not call him. The Blue Demon later enters the room, so the two flee. Shun goes to a room with chained drawers locked with number combinations. He manages to grab the handkerchief as the Blue Demon enters from another door. They run away to go back to the piano room. Shun says that they have to use the handkerchief to wipe off the blood for the combination of a safe.

As they outrun the Blue Demon, Anna is stunned upon seeing the remains of Mika. As they sit and calm themselves, Anna talks about her brother Naoki. The accident was called suicide with the assumption of his inability to withstand bullying. Anna refers to how Shun is similar to her brother. The door then opens and Hiroshi is seen standing at the door. They then go to the piano room, then retrieve the code to get the key to eventually reach the basement.

As they reach the basement, they find that it has been opened by Takuro. As they go down, Takuro strikes Hiroshi, rendering him unconscious. Anna confronts Takuro and believes that Takuro is responsible for killing her brother, which he denies. As Anna begins mentioning Shun's name, he gets annoyed. Shun reaches for the box Takuro carried and opens it, revealing his own lifeless body inside.

Shun then realizes how the group, except Anna, has been ignoring him the whole time, how Takeshi got so scared when Shun was with him (for Takeshi cannot see Shun), and why Anna said Mika would not call him, because he is already dead and cannot be seen by anyone, except Anna. He then flashbacks to the time Takuro bullied him by the riverbank. Takuro hit Shun in the head, killing him. It is then revealed that Takuro went to the empty house to hide Shun's body. Takuro's motive being frustration over his likeness being used in Shun's game. Shun is stunned by the truth and finally disappears as Anna apologizes to him.

Takuro plans on killing Anna since she knows too much, but is suddenly caught by the Blue Demon, and is eaten off-screen. Anna wakes Hiroshi up, and they both flee. The Blue Demon notices and chases after them. Hiroshi, knowing that he can't move so easily and will slow Anna down, insists on staying to buy Anna some time to escape. The Blue Demon stomps on him as it chases Anna. Anna finally reaches the same room she awoke in, but instead of her brother, Shun is calling her from the door. Anna, confused about what to do next, opens the door into the shining light, where she is greeted by Shun.

The scene goes back to the river, as Shun asks Anna whether she is okay. Shun then explains about the dynamics of the game as Anna notices his scar and holds his hand, telling him to speak whatever troubles him to her, as she cannot help her brother and hopes that the same thing will not happen to Shun. Shun replies by holding Anna's hand back, with the screen on the laptop saying that they've cleared the game.

• Anna Iriyama as Anna[3]
• Kenta Suga as Shun[3]
• Seika Furuhata as Mika
• Sho Jinnai as Takuro
• Seiya as Hiroshi
• Riku Ozeki as Takeshi

In 2015, another live-action Ao Oni film, titled Ao Oni ver2.0, was released, although it was not a sequel. It starred the same six students characters, but played by different actors. As well as Ao Oni, this time the film also utilized the character "Blockman" (in the Japanese original, "Fuwatty") from the video game.[7]

• List of films based on video games

• Official website (in Japanese) (archived from the original on 24 April 2014)
• Ao Oni at IMDb