shinya tsukamoto and the man behind the tetsuo film and snake of june and tokyo fist take on edogawa rampo story and turn in one of the most perfect marriage of sound and image i have ever run across not to mention one of the creepy film i have see in a very very long time . yukio be a famous doctor who win fame treat the war wound . he be much in demand by the wealthy and so have little time for the poor in a nearby slum where the plague have be run rampant . yukio be also recently marry to a young woman he meet by the riverside and who be suffer from amnesia . soon a dark figure be lurk about and after yukio father die under mysterious and unnatural circumstance thing begin to take a turn for the bad . what can i say . this be a creepy little thriller that will haunt you and keep you feel off balance . every shot seem to have be perfectly design for maximum beauty . the soundtrack be a wonderful mixture of sound and music calculate to give the sense of thing be not right . the effect of the sound plus the image be a sense of dread and unease even when there be nothing out of the ordinary in the frame and few thriller or horror film have ever be able to make you feel so off by do so little . add to it all be the plot which i be tell take the rampo story a a jumping off point and then spin it out with new complication . give it big point for it ability to keep you guess a to what be go on even if you know whats go on . have read on the film i know what be happen and yet i still have to entertain numerous other possibility . this movie masterfully make you wonder about what be real and what be not . i really like this movie great deal . i do not know if it fully on it own term or simply that it not another japanese or asian horror film with a long hair female ghost lurk about and honestly i do not care because the film be just so damn good it wouldn not really matter anyway . see this movie .