On this TV show, Miyuki Goto is experiencing the main female character of Oiwa in the play. In this work, Miyuki experiences her story through the ghost story of 'Makoto Yotsuya Kaidan' while her boyfriend, Kosuke Hasegawa, succeeds in casting the male character on this path while they are experiencing a different experience.
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.
