Kouta Noda is a 2nd grade high school student at a village. A transfer student, Tendo, from Tokyo becomes Kouta Noda’s classmate. Tendo has a mysterious mood. The two teens becomes friends and spend time having fun, but, one day, one of Kouta's friends disappears. There is a local village legend that one kid will disappear every 100 years.
Cinematography
Golden-hour rural Japan that slowly curdles into unease
Acting
Kanata Hongo's Tendo — unreadable, magnetic, possibly cursed
Director
Katsuhiko Ikeda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kanata Hongo (Tendo) was already famous as Ryuuki in the live-action Death Note series — this role weaponizes his ethereal screen presence in the opposite direction.
The film taps into actual Japanese rural depopulation anxiety, where 'village legends' often mask real histories of ostracism and scapegoating.
