Charli XCX Assembles a Killer Horror Cast With Norman Reedus and Milly Alcock
Takashi Miike’s next nightmare just got louder: Norman Reedus and Milly Alcock are joining Charli XCX, with Kiko Mizuhara and Sho Kasamatsu also boarding the cast.
Takashi Miike is cooking up a new slasher in Kyoto, and the cast just leveled up: Norman Reedus and Milly Alcock are in, joining Charli XCX. That is a sentence I did not have on my 2026 bingo card, yet here we are.
The project
The movie is currently going by the working title Untitled Kyoto and starts filming in Japan next month. Plot-wise, it follows three lifelong friends who reunite in Kyoto for a reconnect-and-reset kind of trip. That plan crumbles fast when Katie (played by Charli XCX) gets overtaken by a vengeful, tormented spirit, with Kiko Mizuhara on the supernatural side of that possession. Think classic Japanese horror energy, but through Miike’s very specific (and very sharp) lens.
Who’s in this thing
- Charli XCX as Katie, the friend at the center of a nasty possession
- Kiko Mizuhara as the violent, tortured spirit
- Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead, The Boondock Saints)
- Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon’s young Rhaenyra; DCU’s upcoming Supergirl)
- Sho Kasamatsu
Charli XCX’s acting run keeps expanding
This continues a busy on-screen streak for Charli. She recently headlined A24’s The Moment, a meta project built around her own life. Up next, she’s in the thriller I Want Your Sex alongside Olivia Wilde, plus the new take on Faces of Death, and more on the way.
Miike being Miike
Miike is a legend for a reason, especially in the horror space — Audition (1999) and Ichi the Killer (2001) still rattle cages. While he preps this Kyoto slasher, he’s also at work on Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, a new entry set in the Bad Lieutenant world, with Shun Oguri, Lily James, and WWE’s Liv Morgan attached. That’s a wild double bill of projects even by Miike standards.
Why this lineup is interesting
A Miike slasher anchored by a pop star, with Reedus bringing grizzled genre cred and Alcock on the rise as the DCU’s new Supergirl, all set against Kyoto’s moody backdrop? That mix of styles and star power feels deliberately chaotic in a fun way. If the possession angle leans into old-school J-horror while Miike pushes the violence and vibe to the edge (as he does), this could get gnarly fast.