Long and perhaps slightly mystifying for a non-Japanese viewer, this Japanese fantasy tells a convoluted fairytale about a writer and his new bride who have arrived at his childhood home to live together and quickly the story encompasses things as wide-ranging as his consultant work as a spectral crime fighter for the local police, the mystery of his mother and father's death, the fantastical local Kamakura night market overrun by mischievious creatures, body possession and body snatching, a trip to the afterlife, and it is worth persisting through all this to the end just to see how much trouble the writers have gone to to tie it all - even the minutest details along the way - together.
★★★☆☆
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