Shi no otome

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

IndieLisboa 2006 •

Japan, Fiction, 2005, 115′

A prize-winning writer, Reiko, moves to a quiet sub-urban house to finish up her new novel with a help from the editor. That night while sleeping, she sees a man in a storage room transporting an object wrapped in cloth. She soon finds out that he is a renowned archaeologist, Professor Yoshioka, researching ancient mummies, and that object was a recently discovered mummy. Working late on her book, Reiko witneses a ghost and finds out that her room once belonged to a woman who had been misssing for a while. This brings unexplainable fear to Reiko as she starts to uncover more stories from the past.