I scooped up this bad boy when browsing through the Fantasy/Horror section at the BANQ. The great thing about the BANQ, as I have already mentioned, is that their DVD library includes a number of films I have NEVER heard of which means that I can't bring a preconceived bias towards them and am thuis completely surprised by what I see when I pop them into the DVD player at home. Sometimes this results in a pleasant surprise, sometimes in a nasty one. "Love Ghost," unfortunately, falls squarely in the latter category.
Kazuko is a young girl who returns to her native village and enrolls in its local high school where she immediately reconnects with her childhood friend and possible lifetime crush, Ryusuke. Her arrival sparks the interest of local hunk (whose name I have since forgot but whose generic qualities really absolve me from any responsibility to remember it and pass on the information to the reader) whose affections in tujrn draw the ire of a number of Kazuko's classmates who, uninterested in hedging their romantic bets, all have crushes on the above mentioned stud. This messy move hexagon (or is it octagon) leads to a number of suicides which may have been spurred on by the mysterious shrine which sits in from of the school and whose appearance is always duly announced by spooky music. Meanwhile, a mysterious boy in black appears once in awhile, usually in conjunction with someone's death, and Kazuko's mom beging to go crazy.
Pretty much everything about this film is bad, from the acting of the lead, which is Bollywood-ish in its lack of range, to the gigantic holes in the plot to the fact that the mysterious boy in black's identity is revealed almost immediately due to poor camerawork (you will see what I mean if you ever experience "Love Ghost"). Despite this, the film inexplicably goes through moments where the DP's body was obviously was taken over by the soul of Christopher Doyle, resulting in moments of stunningly beautiful cinematography that vanish almost as soon as they appeared. This alone is no reason to actually sit down and take the time to watch "Love Ghost" though, so I emphatically counsel everyone to stay away from this effort unless you're in the mood for wasting a couple hours of your life.
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