Mika and Daisuke, a young couple, are having sex, when suddenly,
Tsutomu, an old friend of Daisuke's from groundschool, shows up just like
that. Somehow the guy, whom Daisuke hardly remembers anymore, seems to be
obsessed with a certain groundschool baseball game ... Eventually,
Tsutomu is gone again, but he leaves his cellphone behind, and soon asks
Daisuke to drop it off at his parents' place. On their way through the
woods to Tsutomu's parents, Daisuke and Mika catch a couple making a porn
movie of themselves, and against all odds, Daisuke recognizes the male
part of the couple to be Kentaro, a member of the opposing team in the
groundschool baseball game Tsutomu was going on and on about.
Interestingly, Kentaro and girlfriend are on their way to Tsutomu's
parents as well ... At Tsutomu's parents' place, the our four heroes are
in for a shock: They learn Tsutomu's dead, and has been so for eight
years. So it must have been a ghost who has visited Daisuke and Mika and
(on another occasion) Kentaro and his girlfriend. When our four heroes
visit Tsutomu's grave though, Tsutomu calls again. He now admits he's a
ghost, but still wants to reenact the baseball game he has been talking
about, and in which Daisuke and Kentaro were two key players - on opposing
teams of course. The reenactment of the game doesn't bring up anything
new, but still, all our heroes go home with a warm feeling ... An
interesting combination of sex film, light-hearted comedy and ghost story,
somehow reminiscent of the films of Eric Rohmer or Shunji Iwai in its lack
of excitement despite its topic, but not quite as great on a directorial
level or as interesting as the films of those two - and also a bit too
harmless to leave too much of an impression. Still, it at least flows
along pleasently enough upon watching.
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