Kagen no Tsuki, Last Quarter is as ghostly love story. Although it stars Chiaki Kuriyama, from Juon, Azumi2 and Kill Bill, vol.1, there is very little violence or blood, and no sword fighting :( Her character, Mizuki, has issues as her mother committed suicide because her father had an affair and she has to live with her father, the new wife (former "other woman") and her new sister. That would no doubt mess anyone up. On her 19th birthday, her best friend shows Mizuki a picture of herself in bed with Mizuki's boyfriend. As she is running away from the situation, she comes across a mansion with a very familar melody coming from it and goes in to explore the source. It is a song she dreamed in her childhood and tried to play on the piano, but could never finish it. Also no one else seemed to know the song. Hideto Takarai is playing this song on his guitar and says he wrote it for her. He is distressed and says she left him before, so she promises they will always be together. As the moon moves into its last quarter, he says he has to leave, and she begs to go with him. He says to meet her and she runs to him across the street and is hit by a car, only to be left in coma. She wanders in the woods and comes across as girl calling for her cat. After this movie drags some, but has lovely costumes and Hideto Takarai :).
Rinne or Reincarnation is another Japanese ghost story. There are many people who are having gristly dreams about a hotel. A young woman has been having the same dream for years but her parents tell her she never visited that hotel. Hello...the name of the movie! Anyway, she answers a casting call for a famous horror director who is making a new movie about a mass murder that occured years earlier at that very hotel. After this movie I am not for reincarnation. It seems that there is never a chance for redemption and that evil will live on through all generations and if its in you, you can just give up the idea of ever being well-balanced and fulfilled. It was a pretty creepy movie and has some clives attached to it as there is rarely a movie made with mass murder in that has no blood or sharp objects.
Spider Forest is a Korean movie that I have a sneaking suspicion I've seen before. I watched it all the way through and while parts of it looked familiar, I'm still not sure whether or not I've seen it. A man comes up to a house in the forest and finds two people slaughtered inside. One of them is his former boss and the other is his wife. She supposedly was on a business trip but the plane crashed and he thought she was dead. He chases a man he sees outside and ends up getting hit on the head. When he comes too, he wanders through a tunnel and gets hit by a car. What a bad day he is having! He wakes up in the hospital after surviving a code. A policeman friend of his gets called and they go up to the cabin and start investigating the murders. Our man with the concussion escapes from the hospital to try and figure out the mystery himself. He has many flashbacks about his past as he tells his policeman friend his story. He had gone to the Spider Forest to get a story from a woman who runs a photography store since he works for Mystery Theater. She tells him the Spider Forest is haunted and that the souls of forgotten people become spiders and have no memory of their past. If they are remembered, then they can move on. This is a confusing movie and at the end I have to say I don't get it. I won't say more as I don't want to be a spoiler.
I will rate Kagen 2.5/5 acorns and no clives, and Rinne 3.5/5 acorns and a clive, and Spider 3/5 with a clive also.
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