A professor and his vagabond colleague become acutely aware of their lust, mortality and bad dreams in this intriguing ghostly tale from Suzuki that is somewhat bogged down by its protracted runtime.

Suzuki’s middle entry of his arthouse ‘Taisho’ trilogy sees a playwright get bogged down by his own shifting realities, fictive or otherwise, spawning a spectral meta-theatrical experience that is largely inscrutable yet weirdly transfixing.