Yoshimi Ashikawa

Summertime during the sixties on the beach at Enoshima, a seaside resort not far from Tokyo. This is where 12-year-old Nagisa lives with her mother, who runs a small bar. Nagisa's father was a fisherman; he died several years ago. Nagisa - translated literally, her name means 'beach' - spends most of her time with her girlfriend Noriko, the hairdresser's daughter. Recently, however, Nagisa has begun to find Noriko's company rather dull.

Nakata, a writer, lives with the painful memory of the death of his wife, whose life was cut short a few years earlier. Was it an accident or was it suicide? Doubt persists. In order to escape his guilty conscience, Nakata gives up on marriage and fatherhood. Thus freed, he embarks on an obsessive sexual jeorney and records his adventures in a book, "The Dark Room".

Asae Ōnishi is the lead actress, starring as Aya Kito. 9th grader (third year of junior high school) Aya Kito collapses on the way to school. Dr. Yamamoto discovers that Aya has spinocerebellar ataxia, a fatal and incurable disease that handicaps the body. Aya's mother and Dr. Yamamoto let Aya record in a diary to tell her story and to live her life to the fullest. (Wikipedia)

During the reign of the 11th Shogun, a series of supernatural incidents occur every night in the Edo Castle. A beautiful inspector appears with thunder and lightning to suck people’s blood and kill them. The examiner’s true identity is Amakusa Shiro, a young samurai from the Amakusa clan that was destroyed by the harsh Christian persecution of the Shogunate. Shirô sold his soul to the devil and became an evil spirit.