The Medicine Seller walks into a house poisoned by envy, and the film spends two hours painting that poison in colors that shouldn't exist, every frame looks like it's burning from the inside. The plot cuts cleaner than the first film, the characters actually move with purpose, and the villain is so thoroughly contemptible you stop rooting for their defeat and start rooting for their suffering. The score doesn't just accompany what you're watching; it becomes part of the architecture, turning family dysfunction into something that feels genuinely supernatural.

One month after the Karakasa incident, life in the Edo harem's Inner Chambers is settling back into its old routine, and for the noble families who hold power, that means scheming to keep the balance of influence in their favor. Their newest target is Fuki Tokita, a high-ranking concubine who appears to have caught Lord Tenshi's eye even though her merchant birth makes her an unsuitable mother for his heir. When a series of unnatural deaths strikes the Inner Chambers, the mysterious Medicine Seller is once again admitted to its halls. Amid family feuds, inner turmoil and burning envy, a raging spirit is born, and he must uncover what lies behind the deaths and what part Fuki plays in them.