Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father there. Etsuko becomes worried about Miyuki's state of mind, and she takes Miyuki to the psychiatric hospital where her husband, Tatsuo, works. There, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of "family." Later, Etsuko tells Tatsuo that she is not comfortable with Dr. Jirō Makabe. Tatsuo introduced her to Dr. Makabe earlier at the hospital. Etsuko has a feeling of unease about her husband working with Dr. Makabe. One day, Etsuko hears Dr. Makabe state "I came to Earth to invade."
Direction
Kurosawa turns empty rooms into voids that stare back.
Acting
Kaho's mounting dread without permission to name it.
Sound
Ambient hums that make normal speech feel wrong.
Director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kaho
Etsuko
Masahiro Higashide
Matsuka
Shota Sometani
Tetsuo
Ren Osugi
Nishizaki
Tetsuya Chiba
Tamotsu Asakawa
Kei Ishibashi
Kazuyo Kawauchi
Yukino Kishii
Miyuki Asakawa
Eriko Nakamura
Yoko
Makoto Nakamura
Kasuya
Hirota Otsuka
Police officer
Tarō Suwa
Taoka
Makiko Watanabe
Kasuya's wife
Junpei Yasui
Dr. Komori
Mutsuo Yoshioka
Nogami
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Edited from Kurosawa's 2017 TV series of the same name, compressed from five hours to 140 minutes of concentrated dread.
The 'invasion' functions as both literal sci-fi and metaphor for how systems (family, medicine, marriage) colonize individual consciousness.
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