![]() ![]() The visual style is stupendous! The action takes place in a disappeared, iconic world of classical medieval Japan, perfect, and admitting no trace of the reality of modern times. ![]() The horror of a ghost wife, for instance, isn't that her chains drag noisily across the the hardwood parquet floor, but that we've created her by our insensitivity, our misplaced values, or our betrayals. The ghosts aren't there to "spook" us, they're to show us our common human spiritual and emotional failings. In fact, for each of these slowly developed stories, once you've understood the premise, the story will unfold pretty much as you've guessed it must, inexorably, relentlessly. ![]() There's no attempt to coerce your Hollywood-abused adrenals into delivering just one more squirt by means of some in-your-face special effect. There's a good bit of discussion of this film as "horror" may I suggest that it's horrific in the sense of the ancient Greek tragedies. ![]()
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