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Schoolgirls Asako, Yukino and Natsu take the train to go to the
amusement park together. The train ride is amazingly boring ... until the
train crashes, and all three are severely injured ...
flashback to the past or flashforward to the future: Natsu sees a man
in the street that is literally torn apart due to some accident - but
still he seems to be alive, and seems to be coming after her. Later at
home, her mother's head seems to have been cut off, but somehow, her
mother is still able to talk to her and stuff. When Natsu wakes up the
next day, her eye has fallen out of its socket and she slowly bleeds to
death.
Asako is riding through the city by moped, when she suddenly witness
some people throwing a woman off the roof, a woman Asako suddenly
remembers from the train accident. Next the same people, presumably
zombies, go after Asako, and she just about manages to escape. She makes
it to Yukino's place, but the zombies are hot on her heels, and Yukino and
herself just manage to barricade themselves in inside Yukino's room - with
a strange woman Yukino claims is her mother, though Asako thinks she knows
better. Also, Yukino constantly worries about her brother Ma-Chan even
though Asako knows she's an only child. As Asako and Yukino start to argue
and Yukino actually blames Asako for everything, Asako makes a daring
escape ... and the zombies all go after her, totally neglecting Yukino and
her mother. Then Yukino and her mother find Ma-Chan - who has not only
been killed by the zombies, he has also molten ... and suddenly Yukino
starts to have doubts about her brother, whom her mother suddenly refers
to as Yuki, and she starts having doubts about her mother as well, who
looks nothing like her mother in a family picture but like a woman she
bumped into at a train station. Finally, somewhere in town, she finds a tv
reporting about the train wreck she was in, saying that Natsu has died,
Asako is still missing and she herself is in critical condition ...
Asako in the meantime is still on the run from the zombies when she
finds herself under a new threat: Giant Natsu is hopping on one leg
through the city like in a trance - just like she was hopping after her
shoe on one leg when the train crashed ...
Don't try to understand my synopsis because honestly speaking, this
film doesn't make too much sense ... and it doesn't have to, because
rather than presenting a linear storyline, the film is following the logic
of a nightmare - and is doing so admirably well by mixing past present and
future, by presenting story elements that make no sense at all, by not
giving much of a heed about genre conventions and by infusing the whole
film with an atmosphere of unease.
A really spooky little thing clocking in at just under one hour (which
means the story isn't stretched beyond limits), definitely recommended.
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