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Star Miyuki Goto plays the main female character Oiwa in the stage play based on a ghost story 'Makoto Yotsuya Kaidan” while her boyfriend Kousuke Hasegawa succeeds in casting for main male character. Miyuki then finds out that Kousuke has been betraying her and having affairs with two actresses of the play. Along with her problem of separating herself from the character Oiwa, Miyuki turns her love into bitterness and revenge.
A stately backstage drama that gradually morphs into a full-blown supernatural horror movie, [this is] a synthetic experience that sporadically intrigues but never fully engages.
two parallel narratives bleed into one another in a deeply irrational manner, blurring the boundaries between theatre and film, antique and (post)modern, actor and character, the living and the dead.
Evocatively shot and earns a few winces of discomfort on its way to a lurid finale twist. What the picture fails to accomplish, however, is giving the viewer someone to care about, relate to, or understand.
The movie is dull right up until the point that it becomes completely, characteristically bonkers, with Miike trotting out some of his trademark obscene violence.