Natsuko Akiyama

A down-on-his-luck dancer falls in love with a unhappy teacher at an all girls school. (imdb)

A haunted melody, a used record one must possess. At any cost. Adapted from Junji Ito's short story Used Record.

Are you afraid of heights? Why? Is it just acrophobia? Or, perhaps as a very young child, you witnessed the murder of your father as he was pushed off the veranda of your apartment building and now have a deathly fear of going up to the 20th floor of any building! Psychoanalyst and counselor Kyosuke Kai, a bit quirky with compulsions of his own, ends up finding out more than just the standard medical reasons for his patient's emotional problems.

Taihei's difficult days are just beginning. His girlfriend Natsuko has a sister called Kanoko who falls victim to a disease that has afflicted women of the family for generations, causing a sudden eruption of hair across her body. When she turns into a wolf and escapes into the woods, Taihei and Natsuko come after her and stumble across an unidentified body. The police claim the wolf is to blame. This begins a frantic chase where the myth of the werewolf and Japanese folklore blend together.