Karen, who has been in Japan six months, prays every day at the shrine to be able to understand Japanese. Maybe she should put that time into learning the language.
She joins a neighborhood group, but the chairwoman doesn’t like her and makes fun of her. Karen is not helping herself by volunteering to do a community survey when she can’t speak or write the language, or understand what anyone is saying. Satsuki, her only friend, helps her by interpreting for her and pushing back on those who make fun of her.
Due to the language barrier, Karen agrees to go on an overnight trip without realizing it. When the chairwoman makes fun of her, Karen says she’ll have to ask her husband if she can go, which prompts even more abuse. Karen’s husband is kind of an idiot as he says it may help her learn the language. If she hasn’t done it in six months, two days with women who dislike her won’t help.
The village they visit has a fox guardian and if you offend it, it will drag you to hell. On the way in, the chairwoman makes fun of a rundown building and a villager starts screaming at her for her disrespect. So the chairwoman decides they’ll do ouija because she wants revenge. One of the girls grabs a coin from the shrine box to use as the planchette. That can’t be good. Karen is such a pushover. After meekly protesting she isn’t interested, she puts her finger on the coin to play.
The next morning one of their group is dead and they send Karen, the girl who can’t speak Japanese, to get help. Someone in a fox mask appears and says only one of them will survive. Everyone panics and they find an app on their phone where they can track others in the game and get weapons. People start making teams, and it’s all out war, although Karen keeps saying they should talk and work together, not reasoning that if someone has already tried to kill you, then you cant trust them.
My main question is can they not leave this town? No one even tried. They just accepted that they had to play this game because they called Kokkuri-San through the ouija board. The other thing that drove me nuts is they’d kill someone, but never grab their weapon.
The first part of this movie was like watching a drama about an awkward woman who gets married and moves to a county where she can’t speak the language, and makes little effort to do so. Karen is a nice person, but she is so uncomfortable with herself and so easily pressured into doing anything to fit in that she is infuriating.
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| If you’re covered in blood, the ouija has gone horribly wrong |
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| Did they explain how they got this on their phone? |
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