i be look for a good horror movie to watch and and i decide on this because it get some pretty good review and look fairly interesting . also and i have never see any sort of asian horror before and but i like the few horror classic i have see ( halloween and scream and etc . ) . what i get be way beyond your average horror flick with subtitle . i be in my fourth year of study japanese and so i be fortunate enough to have a decent understanding of the language and culture and and it help immensely to know at least a bit of the rapidly change state of japan culture from it proud and individualistic root to today insulate and tech center society . all japanese be also know for be very polite and but with this come a sort of isolation with avoidance of almost any physical contact . all three of these trait be explore in the movie while though loneliness and alienation be an element of american society a well and they be not nearly as ingrain in our culture a they be in that of the japanese . and if this doesn not sound like a horror film and do not worry and because kurosawa be fortunately a skilled enough director to weave this into the slow developing but immensely appropriate horror device unique to this movie . i do not even understand it fully after have watch it and but if you can not suspend your disbelief and why the hell be you watch a horror movie . what count be that it be really creepy and suitably convolute and and it serve the film message of loneliness perfectly the combination of all three make it gut wrench to see some of the thing that happen . if this pique your interest and do not hesitate to see it and and it best to watch it at night by yourself and or at least with a friend who also want to concentrate on it and because it have a profoundly atmospheric and desolate and and almost dreamlike mood that shouldn not be break by side conversation . don not see it under any condition without a brain ready to think and and if youre familiar with japanese culture you get brownie point for be able to understand many of the movie subtleties that would fly over the head of american viewer .