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One day, Seiji Doi (Eugene Harada) brings Akira (Atsuro Watabe), a new teacher
at a local school, to the home of the Bonomiya family, one of the oldest
families of the small village Omine, which seems to live in a small ritualistic
world all of their own, & is headed by old cheat & drunkard Takanao
(Kazuhiro Yamaji). But despite the weird goings-on in the family, Akira becomes
fascinated by Takanao's sister Miki (Yuki Amami), an old spinster in her 50's
working all alone at ther little paper mill & has seen very little of the
world outside Omine. When she notices the attraction she has on the stranger
she grows (quite visibly) younger by the hour, & they soon embark on a
steamy affair.
All seems to be going well for a while, until Takanao tells Akira that he
once had an affair with his sister Miki too, a relationship that even spawned a
kid that their mother (Shiho Fujimura) killed at birth. & as if that wasn't
disturbing enough, Miki is told by her mother that she has to look after the
Inugami, the War Dog Gods, which will, are they not looked after & counted
everyday, start killing people. Miki bluntly refuses ... & then people
start showing up dead ...
It gets even worse though when Takanao decides to sell the land Miki's
papermill is on to Mrs Doi (Keiko Awaji), Seiji's aunt & an enemy to the
Bonomiya family. Miki tries to reason with Mrs Doi & talk her out of
ruining her life, but when that doesn't help, before her eyes Mrs Doi dies an
unnatural death, caused no doubt by the Inugami ...
Upon learning that the villagers of Omine, superstitious folks who never
fully trusted the Bonomiyass n the first place, form an angry mob to destroy
Miki's papermill - upon which Akira persuades Miki to leave the village with
him. However when they stop by the Bonomiyas to say goodbye, Miki is instead
possessed by the spirit of her dead mother (who was already dead when she told
Miki about the Inugami the first time it turns out) & installed as the
keeper of the Inugami, with her family shielding her against all & any
outsiders, including Akire, who soon drives off on his own.
In Omine more & more mysterious murders occur, & the villagers,
pretty sure that Miki is behind it all, do quite openly make plans to lynch
her. Only Seiji seems to care about Miki, but when he calls on the police for
help, he's rudely turned down ... so he calls back Akira, the only man who
might be able to help ... even if it has by now turned out that he is in fact
the illegitimate son of Miki & her brother Takanao.
Akira comes to join the Bonomiyas in their Ancestral rites, a weird ceremony
to honour their ancestors that involves for some reason drinking chicken blood,
& at which the villagers plan to strike. But the Ancestral Rites have
turned into a slaughter all of their own, since ruthless Takanao has decided to
cleanse his family of all unhealthy elements, icluding Miki. But after mucho
bloodshed, Akira can actually save Miki - who awakes from the trance
she's been in since she has been possessed by her mother - & kill Takanao,
despite the fact that he is his father. However, when making a getaway with
Miki, he is shot by the local hunter (Koichi Sato), who was hired by Takanao
...
Part ghoststory part perversion of a rural soap opera (which, at times, are
spooky enough taken on their own merit), Inugami is a highly
intelligent, deliberately slow-moving spooker that manages to keep the vuiewer
puzzled throughout as it doesn't try to explain its plot away too soon but
gives the audience just as much information as necessary to be able to take a
twist & turn at any given time without becoming unbelievable/silly (that is
if you are prepared to accept the concept of the Inugami of course).
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