A two part movie, Shadow of the Wraith is about a girl who leaves her body to torment the lovers of a boy she fancies. The Hollow Stone is about a girl who's new apartment is haunted by the spirit of a little girl.
Shadow of the Wraith is the third movie in a series of four in The Kadokawa Horror Collection set. Strangely enough the movie is only named after one of the two stories envolved. A duo of creepy ghost stories that will raise the hair on the back of your neck.
Shadow of the Wraith is about a girl who is apparently dead, being that she leaves her body and is at more than two places at one time and evertime she walks you can hear water drops, which was kinda trippy. The girl's name is Asaji and she has a crush on the very popular Ryoji Yoshino, though Ryoji is dating the young Mariko Kuramoto. We find out at the beginning that Asaji is not human but for some reason we see her at school with other kids and do things normal kids do. Anyways her jealousy turns to murder when she scares Mariko into killing herself in a freak accident on her bike. Afterwards Ryoji is all shaken up and doesn't want to date anyone new but Asaji's persistance lives on. Another girl comes into Ryoji's life and Asaji just isn't having it. What follows is so strange it's hard to comprehend.
 
Next is The Hollow Stone, a story about a girl, Naoko, who's family moves into a new apartment just to find out that everyone living in the 4 stories below them are dying in mysterious ways. Naoko ultimately comes to conflict with the ghost of a little girl that lives in her closet and the only one that can help her is the brother of Ryoji from the first chapter. His name is Yoshino and he seems to know alot about fending from spirits. Anyways the ending of this chapter threw me in a circle, and left me gasping for breath.
This flick was good, and not like most other ghost stories, the fact that they associate both stories, though totally different, with the same person, who isn't exactly the main character of the movie, is pretty cool. Of course I'd hate to be him after watching this flick, all that trauma, that would suck.
The stories were great, very origional and had a unique flow, the FX were eerie and smoothe, the lighting was great, made it hard to tell day from night at times but otherwise excellent. All around this duo is definitely worth watching, and I'd definitely watch it again.
Very unique and creepy, if you're into good ghost stories give this movie a run, you won't be disappointed. I sure wasn't.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Ikisudama, Campus Ghost Stories
MOVIE YEAR: 2001
DIRECTOR: Toshiharu Ikeda
WRITING CREDITS: Masaya Ozaki, Nanaeko Sasaya
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Kozue Ayuse, Hyoei Enoki, Makiko Fujii
COUNTRY: Japan
RUNTIME: 117 min
RATING: 8/10
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