TAIPEI, Jun 16 (AP) -- Japanese heartthrob Eguchi Yousuke said shooting the Taiwanese ghost thriller "Silk" left him with a series of other worldly sensations eerily consistent with the film's bizarre theme.
"Silk," directed by Taiwan's Su Chao-bin, tells the story of a group of scientists and investigators probing several mysterious deaths. They discover that shortly before expiring all the victims sprouted silk from their torsos and limbs.
"I enjoyed shooting the film because it is not just a horror movie but one tapping into human nature," Eguchi told a news conference.
But the star of the popular Japanese soap opera "The Great White Tower" said he had
hallucinated about being intertwined by silk threads shortly after the shooting was completed.
Chang Chen, the Taiwanese star of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," joked that ghosts were probably involved in making the film.
"On a certain day when we wanted to shoot a scene with rain, the rain stopped just as we got ready," Chang said. "And then when we turned to film another scene with a clear sky, it suddenly started to rain."Chang plays a policemen investigating the deaths.
Also starring in the film are Hong Kong's Karena Lam and Taiwan's Barbie Hsu.
