(Japan, 2001) Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s meditative, metaphysical horror film (currently being remade in the US) transforms the proposition that personal computers and the Internet isolate, rather than connect, people into a devastating portrait of mankind gripped by paralyzing despair, a veritable plague of depression spun from a supernatural conspiracy. Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Aso and Kurosawa favorite Kôji Yakusho star.
