A Japanese factory worker abandons his job to run an online resale business, only to be hunted down by disgruntled suppliers and customers after his operations expand and isolate him. When a former assistant intervenes violently, the survivor finds himself bound not to redemption but to deeper complicity — suggesting the system consumes even those who escape it.
A Tokyo detective investigates a string of motiveless murders linked by an 'X' carved into victims and a mysterious man with apparent amnesia. As he traces each killer to the same enigmatic figure, his own grip on memory, motive, and agency begins to fray. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 1997 film treats hypnosis as ambient infection, building dread through repetition, restraint, and the slow erosion of certainty — not through gore or jump-scares, but through the unnerving plausibility of suggestion.