A double bottom movie. What starts out as a good Japanese horror movie seamlessly turns into a social drama.
The scene with a ghost, played by a ballerina, at the very beginning is remembered for a long time and sets the mood for the whole film. The Japanese are masters of playing with light and shadow, leaving enough space for the spectator’s imagination, which is engaged in frightening its owner.
Gradually, the film becomes an obvious allegory for the processes taking place in society, the ghosts themselves are not much more frightening, because the film shows real social processes much more terrible.
Of the drawbacks - classic for Japanese cinema re- and non-playing, the second becomes very useful in the second half of the film.
Filmed beautifully and richly, camera work and sound design at a high level. Externally, the film is worthy of standing in the same row with the Curse and the Sound, but the second part of it shifts the accents somewhat and it is not possible to call it only horror so confidently.