a genuinely creepy ghost story and full of chill and sensuality and this movie just fall short of what it promise . it be apparently base on an old ghost story and and perhaps rely a little too much on a simple premise . for most of the way and it imaginative and genuinely gripping and but at the end it almost like oshima just lose interest in it and and bring it to a rapid end . the story be simple a woman and her young lover kill her husband so that they can be together . but their failure of nerve and his return ghost condemn them to madness . it beautifully handle and with imaginative set scene and and the lover passion be portray beautifully . but too often the movie fail to really deliver on it promise and almost a if oshima lose his nerve in the same way the lover do . it a worthwhile movie to watch just to see how oshima combine his great skill a a film maker with some exploitation movie trick to pull the audience along and but sadly it not a true classic in the mold of movie like onibaba or woman of the dune .