A baseball bat, a mystery, and 87 minutes of 'wait, WHAT just happened?'
Acting
Houka Kinoshita commits absolutely unhinged energy to a nobody protagonist.
Direction
Maeda stretches nothing into something; it's either genius or accidental.
Writing
Dialogue so unnatural it loops back to fascinating.
Director
Tetsu Maeda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Japan's late-90s V-cinema boom where direct-to-video thrillers experimented with minimal budgets and maximal weirdness.
Aoi Miyazaki was 15 here; she'd become a major star, making this an early curiosity in her filmography few fans know exists.
JP
