At SXSW in Austin it won the Audience Award. At BIFF in Brussels, it claimed the Golden Crow for best film, while Stephen King finds it surprising and disturbing, although we all know what he's like: he hates The Shining (1980)? Your mother saw dead people. And helped them cross the threshold to the afterlife. Your sister is dead but you journey together. You are, of course, a medium, clairvoyant, go-between for the living and the dead. What you didn't know is that, as with Schrödinger's cat, there are serial killers (ours believes that the soul resides in the teeth?) that may be living and dead at the same time. This is the piercing point of an elegant, dark and measured film, courtesy of a US filmmaker who speaks Japanese and was a Mormon missionary in Australia.

• Japan
• Direction: Dave Boyle
• Production: Dave Boyle, Kento Kaku, Kosuke Tsutsumi / Signal181, XYZ Films, Toho Next
• Screenplay: Dave Boyle
• Photography: Patrick Ouziel
• Music: Jonathan Snipes
• Edition: Chieko Suzaki
• Cast: Moeka Hoshi, Kurumi Inagaki, Kento Kaku, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Bokuzo Masana