After numerous contributions to the J-Horror canon with notable films such as Pulse and Cure, Kurosawa conceived this haunting drama which was also his first film to be officially selected for the Cannes Film Festival. In it, he tells the story of Mamoru (ASANO Tadanobu) and Yuji (ODAGIRI Joe), two young men who hold down uninteresting jobs and are each other’s only friend. Antisocial, alienated, and lonely, they take comfort in each other, and the killer jellyfish Mamoru keeps as pets. Kurosawa probes their lives in what Premiere magazine calls “an enchantingly cryptic, ethereally photographed slice of somber surrealism.”