A volunteer home care worker, Nishima Rika (Megumi Okina), enters the home of a bed-ridden patient and discovers a strange ghostly presence lurking behind a door sealed with duct tape. Her discovery unleashes a horrible evil which baffles police investigators, who find that a whole series of people have gone missing from this particular house. Further investigation leads to Izutni Toyama (Misa Uehara), a former detective who handled the case of a man who murdered his wife in the house, but whose son was never found. But when the angry “Ju-On” spirit of vengeance that has infected the house reaches beyond its boundaries to kill Toyama and his daughter, Rika realizes that the horror is spreading.

One night the production staff is watching the test footage, some intriguing images appear: a woman in white can be seen vaguely behind the leading actress Hitomi Kurokawa. As the film shooting progresses, eerie incidents start to happen one after one. By the same director of “Ringu.”

From one of Japan's greatest directors, Shohei Imamura, comes a chilling fact-based horror story. For his riveting study of a serial killer, Shohei Imamura (The Ballad of Narayama, Black Rain) dives boldly into an amoral world where impulse is reason enough for grisly murder. Re-enacting the 78-day crime spree that led to the arrest and execution of notorious killer Iwao Enokizu, this riveting film depicts sex and violence graphically but never gratuitously. Avoiding simplistic caricature, Ken Ogata (The Ballad of Narayama, Mishima) portrays Enokizu as a man who exudes charm and calm as naturally as cruelty and rage. Based on police records and the prize-winning book by Ryuzo Saki, this film is highly disturbing yet always compelling.