tsuruta norio kakashi catch my attention because of the obscure mental association i make with the kakashi dori festival hold annually in the kaminoyama shi city in yamagata ken prefecture . i wonder if tsuruta have this in mind when he make this film . if he release a sequel call kase dori . well and never mind . besides be rather short and less than satisfying in it plot resolution and my primary complaint about this film be the horrid transfer on the region 3 dvd which be quite good for the daylight scene and but irritatingly pixelated during the low light and night shot . and be a low budget horror flick and this turkey have a lot of shadowy and nocturnal footage which i have a hard time follow because my attention be constantly be divert to the ever change patch of pixel fade in and out . yuck . a for the movie and yoshikawa kaoru ( nonami maho ) be search for her brother tsuyoshi ( matsuoka shunsuke ) and who have disappear . a search of his apartment turn up an ambiguous and messily scrawl letter from a girl in kozukata machi and a small rural village . kaoru drive to kozukata on the eve of their kakashi matsuri festival and where she find the cliche little town with a secret and along with her brother . unless there be a long version of the film out there and the character development be as thin a both the plot and the special effect budget . perhaps the movie budget be blow on bring in hk actress grace ip to play the very out of place kozukata resident who barely speak any japanese . she even have a chinese surname in the movie and which do little to explain why she there in the middle of the rural japanese heartland . shibasaki kou ( who remind me of a short esumi makiko ) play the mysterious girl who lure tsuyoshi to kozukata and and do a decent job with the sparse camera time she get . the one thing that impress me about this movie be the excellent lighting and cinematography of the daylight scene depict the beauty of a small rural farming village . other than that and let the renter beware and the buyer be laugh at .