Written & Directed by: Takashi Shimizu Starring: Yureki Yanagi .... Shunsuke Kobayashi Chiaki Kuriyama .... Mizuho Tamura Hitomi Miwa .... Yuki Asumi Miwa .... Kanna Murakami Yoriko Dôguch .... Nakamura Taro Suwa .... Kamio Yuue .... Manami Kobayashi Ryôta Koyama .... Toshio Saeki Release Date: Direct-to-Video: February 11, 2000 (Japan); Box Higashi-Nakano: March 18, 2000 (Japan); Festival van de Fantastische Film: April 11, 2003 (Netherlands) Rating:

A schoolteacher named Shunsuke Yanagi (Yureki Yanagi) pays a visit to his student named Toshio (Ryôta Koyama)at his home as he's been absent from school but he discovers that he is the only one at home and his home has been uncleaned.
He finds out that Toshio isn't who he thinks he is anymore as his father apparently has killed his mother and Toshio himself as they seem to haunt their home and kill the neighbors living near their house in the most gruesome ways as they hear deadly cat sounds before their deaths.
The police can't understand why so many people are disappearing as even the neighbors end up disappearing.

A confusing Japanese flick which almost seemed entertaining but it was just frusterating to understand.
There are nice haunting scenes but when the movie tries so hard to be scary it's more downright funny as it was that corny although it was meant to be a serious horror film.
Later on The Grudge saw the light of day.

The acting is hard to understand as it's in Japanese but the cast seems to perform fairly decently.
The actor that represents himself very clearly and well is the leading guy Yureki Yanagi.
Child actor Ryôta Koyama also performs pretty good too making his part extremely mysterious.

A boy's jaw is missing and he's bloodied
A ghostly corpse of a woman is bloodied

Takashi Shimizu tries to make his work creepy but he really fails to do so but there are some odd moments that does look slightly spooky like when he shows the boy crawling up the stairs bloodied and his jaw is missing or when he directs Takako Fuji when she is discovered as a bloodied ghost crawling out of a room of the house.
There is a hilarious moment when a harmless looking kitten comes running up to a woman and she's in hysterics.

Gary Ashiya and Shiro Sato delivers some synthesizer/violin sounds suiting the elements of the scenes in the film but alot of the times the movie is silent with no sound effects.