On the first night of the 21st century, when hundreds of fireworks fill up the dark sky, Kanan, a teenage girl who shoots personal movies, accidentally captures a ghost on her digital video camera. She decides to visit her remaining family members to show them the footage, but eventually realizes that the ghost is actually only visible to her. Thinking that the ghost is either of her father who committed suicide when she was a child, or one of her older brothers who drowned to death, she feels that her entire family has been cursed. What starts out as a casual visit to her family gradually turns into a horrifying experience as one person is killed after another. What did she capture on camera? Or did she really capture anything at all? –Locarno Film Festival
this is one weird little movie... it starts out as a low-budget version of films like Ringu, but it goes completely nuts in its second half. highly recommended... one of the most interesting japanese independent films i saw in the last few years. much better than the reigning film festival mode of digital tristesse / boring dead-pan humor.
