(The following remarks involve part of the plot, and those who have not seen the movie should read
it carefully.) This is not a fairy tale story, nor does it have a fairy tale ending.
There was nothing particularly striking about the beginning of things, but it felt a little cliché. Her parents divorced, and her mother Shumei (played by Hitomi Kuroki) temporarily obtained custody of her 6-year-old daughter and took her child, Ikuko, to a rented house. The borrowed place is naturally not a good place, so it was destined to encounter bizarre events - more and more water seepage in the house, and the quality of the water is not very good; the red school bag that haunts the ghosts; vaguely In the building, I saw the figure of a child with long hair and a yellow raincoat, exactly the same as the child who had been missing for two years on the missing person notice...
Shumei is not a very strong woman, perhaps from a certain point of view, she is quite cowardly and timid, And was caught off guard by a series of events. The father, who didn't care about his daughter before, was unexpectedly stubborn, striving for the custody of his daughter, and of course, he also used the link including giving Shumei mental pressure. Thanks to the help of a lawyer, Shumei was able to cheer herself up. "As long as I live with Yuko," the woman who has nothing but her daughter thinks so and acts so hard... But
life is unpredictable.
The flood water that permeated everywhere finally raised painful memories, and the peace that came at the cost of sacrifice was helpless but also touching. "Don't come here, Yuzi!"..."I'm your mother..." Shumei still kept that horror to herself forever. She was still the woman who would be so frightened that she could not stand, the woman who would be frightened by proofreading horror novels, or the woman who could not fight back against her husband's indifference, but at this moment, she was holding the terrifying man tightly in her arms. The source, moved his reluctant eyes from his daughter, and let the dark and willful water engulf him because of being hurt...
"Mom..." A wave of water hit, engulfing the memory of life and death... I
tried my best to The father who wanted to have a daughter finally has a new wife and another daughter. Ten years later, Ikuko, who saw her mother at her original residence, confided like this. "I'm going to live with my mother, didn't my mother say that it's fine as long as you live with me?"
"No way, Yuko."
Because you are the most important daughter to me, I don't want you to be hurt; because I want to protect you You, so I will exchange infinite fear for your limited peaceful life. You, you have to live well.
"My mother has been guarding me somewhere..."
Although she is not around, although I don't know when I can meet, I may never see it again. In any case, I want to live a good life with my father's family that I don't like.
Yuko leaves the abandoned hug and the movie ends. This ending is not a happy ending, but it is quite realistic and very touching.
"My mother has been guarding me somewhere..." is
indeed a great happiness.
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