Physician Koichiro Kiby loses interest in work and begins drinking in a local park after the death of his wife. One day he encounters a girl who knows intimate details about his life. Now, he must unlock her mystery in this fantasy drama.
Acting
Hagiwara's hollowed-out grief carries every frame.
Direction
Kashihara turns a park bench into cosmic dread.
Writing
Intimate dialogue that never explains too much.
Director
Tatsurô Kashihara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kohji Moritsugu, who plays the mysterious institute director, is legendary for playing Ultraseven in the 1967 tokusatsu series—casting that winks at the film's own body-horror transformation themes.
Persona (2008) shamelessly borrows its title and identity-merging premise from Bergman's 1966 masterpiece, but swaps psychological horror for lo-fi Japanese sci-fi about grief as a communicable disease.
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