Takashi Miike	...	(Director)
Kikumi Yamagishi	...	(Writer)
Ko Shibasaki	...	(as Kô Shibasaki)
Hitomi Katayama	...
Ebizô Ichikawa	...	Kousuke Hasegawa / Tamiya Iemon
Hideaki Itô	...	Miyuki's ex-boyfriend
Maiko	...	Kayoko Kurata
Hiroshi Katsuno	...	Matasaemon Tamiya / Michizaburou Ogata
Toshie Negishi	...	Maki / Misuzu Horiuchi
Miho Nakanishi	...	Ume Ito / Rio Asahina
Ikkô Furuya	...	Kihei Ito / Kanji Shimada
Kôji Endô	...	Composer
Nobuyasu Kita	...	Cinematographer
Kenji Yamashita	...	Editor

Comments: Great atmosphere. A group of actors rehearsing a stage play, Kaiden. Most of it is shot on the stage. A bloody fetus notwithstanding this is Miike the professional more than Miike the provocateur. It will bore most Miike fans, but I liked it.

Summary: A star, Miyuki Goto (Ko Shibasaki) plays Oiwa, the protagonist in a new play based on the ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan. She pulls some strings to get her lover, Kosuke Hasegawa (Ebizo Ichikawa) cast in the play, even though he's a relatively unknown actor. Other performers Rio Asahina (Miho Nakanishi) and Jun Suzuki (Hideaki Ito) lust after Miyuki. Off stage the cast's possessive love and obsessions exist as reality. Trapped between the play and reality, the cast's feelings for each other are amplified. When it becomes clear that love is not meant to be both on and off stage, love turns into a grudge and crosses the blurred line between reality and fantasy.