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Melancholic and very moody tech horror. Definitely a slow burn ghost story, but really gets under your skin and into your head. Kurosawa is a master of dreadful sounds and liminal spaces. Despite all that, it's also a beautiful and poetic film. It's a bizarre odyssey you go on with these characters - all of whom are well written and fleshed out. I've seen this once before (streaming) so i'm happy to have it now from Arrow in my humble collection. I'm reading this movie was shot on an Arriflex camera in 35mm film. I can't find many tech specs beyond that, but upon watching a few scenes from Arrow, it is a grainy, dark, and very analogue looking film. I don't know if it was shot like that on purpose or if it's the transfer quality but the Blu-ray is similar looking to a DVD. Again, maybe this was the Kurosawa's intention to capture tech from that time, maybe it was the film budget, hard to say.