A man disfigured by birth walks into a house that wants to kill him, thinking he's saving someone. What he finds instead is a labyrinth designed to break him, and the real trap is that rescue was never the point. Masaoka Harada spent three decades building this alone, funding it himself, and it shows in every deliberate, suffocating frame, this is horror made by someone who understands that the cruelest mazes are the ones we walk into for love.
Sakichi has never belonged. Because of the way he looks, the people of Asuka Village treat him with open prejudice. One day he finds Reiko held prisoner inside a big mansion, and he sneaks in to free her. The house turns out to be built as a trap, full of snares and winding mazes that stand between him and Reiko. The film is a horror drama made by one person working alone: Harada began it in 1992 after finishing MIDORI and paid for it himself.
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