Your dead brother's vacuum cleaner shouldn't be this interesting.
In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are sketchy at best, yet no one has any answers. When she starts having hallucinations involving his ghost, however, she seeks some psychological help, eventually uncovering some things that she may have wished she'd left covered.
Acting
Miwako Ichikawa's unraveling is quietly devastating.
Direction
Nakahara turns household objects into existential threats.
Director
Shun Nakahara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Japan's early-2000s wave of 'heisei anxiety' cinema, where domestic spaces became sites of psychological rupture.
Director Shun Nakahara adapted this from his own novel; the vacuum cleaner detail was based on a real estate observation he never forgot.
JP
