Austin Film Festival 2006

The film was directed by veteran Japanese director Tsukamoto Shinya ("Tetsuo: The Iron Man") and combines elements of horror and detective genres with social commentary. Variety notes, ”[Shinya’s] talent for creating and more importantly, maintaining, a frightening mood never falters… His idiosyncratic style, recalling David Lynch at his most perverse, is visceral.”

The film investigates an internet predator who enters victims’ minds while they sleep, an idea that came from the real life Japanese suicide websites which incite readers to commit suicide. The concept also sprung out of the director’s childhood nightmares which he says, “"frightened me, but at the same time they gave me a certain joy as if I were on a roller coaster at a leisure park."

In Japanese with English subtitles.