A death row inmate tours the afterlife with Tetsurō Tamba and a celestial goddess—Japan's wildest PSA about mortality.
The second installment of the spirit world guide movie based on the original idea of Tetsuro Tamba, made after the hit of the previous work. Depicts the world after death seen by a man who was sentenced to death for murdering his wife and sent to heaven.
Acting
Tetsurō Tamba's deadpan otherworldly tour guide energy
Production
Bargain-bin heaven sets that somehow work
Writing
Bonkers premise played completely straight
Director
Mitsunori Hattori
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Japan's 1980s-90s 'shinreikai' (spirit world) boom, where celebrities hosted documentaries about the afterlife—imagine if Morgan Freeman made six movies about heaven's real estate market.
Tamba's son Yoshitaka plays young Ryo, making this a literal family production about patricide and cosmic justice. The dinner table must have been TENSE.
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