Program Note
Realtor Eguchi has a strange encounter with a female ghost when he shows an old house to a client and later learns about a couple murdered by a robber there. Soon after this, he loses everything; his wife leaves him and ends up working at a building demolition company, where he becomes attracted to a colleague called Fujiko. However, the more he wants her, the more the female ghost that rocked the core of his peaceful life returns to haunt him. Filmmaker Yamanouchi Daisuke’s talent lies in combining the generic genre conventions of erotic film, horror and SF, and this is once again apparent following his bold, hard gore debut feature Red Room: The Forbidden King Game (1999). The female ghost haunting the protagonist and the shocking conclusion after dramatic changes in this man has the hallmarks of a horror film, with sex scenes almost every 10 minutes rooting it as a pink movie. (Martin LEE)