Films

When the man she loves is killed by the ghost Mag Mag, Sanae decides to take revenge on the entity that stole her love. But as she searches for answers, she discovers that the true identity of the person who deserves her vengeance is very different from what she imagined. From there, grief turns into obsession and love into a curse that seems impossible to break. The feature debut of comedian Yuriyan Retriever, “Mag Mag” takes the conventions of J-horror and throws in a generous dose of absurd humour, twisted romance and violence. Produced by K2 Pictures, a new Japanese production company associated with filmmakers such as Takashi Miike, Hirokazu Kore-eda and Miwa Nishikawa, the film is both a supernatural revenge story and a rather unhealthy declaration of love to the genre. After all, there are toxic relationships, and then there are the ones that literally kill you.