Juzo Murasaki is a young man traumatized by his experience of bullying at school. He returns to his hometown and takes a job on a building site with his old nemesis Toru Akai. But Juzo's trauma has created a monster; he harbors a second personality, Neighbor No. 13, a vicious, brutal and disfigured character intent on exacting a painful revenge on his bully.
Acting
Shido Nakamura's physical transformation into No. 13 is genuinely unhinged.
Direction
Inoue's grime-soaked aesthetic makes every frame feel infected.
Practical Effects
No. 13's disfigured design—no CGI, all prosthetic nightmare fuel.
Director
Yasuo Inoue
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Santa Inoue's cult manga, this adaptation arrived during Japan's 2000s J-horror boom but deliberately rejected ghost-girl tropes for psychological body horror.
Shido Nakamura and Shun Oguri reportedly never interacted on set—director Inoue kept them separated to maintain the fractured personality tension.
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