Okay, this my first venture into the numerous film adaptations of this classic japanese ghost tale - i've got a few more of these lined up. This being a Keisuke Kinoshita flick you might already have guessed this two-part epic is not so much fodder for supernatural thrill seekers as it is a straightforward, hard-hitting drama - a moral tale more concerned with karma and the abysses of the human soul than with scary imagery, leaving it open for interpretation if there's anything ghostly happening at all. If you ask me: No, there isn't. But the men in this story sure are scary monsters.