Inugami

Aroview: Quietly impressive suspenser set in a remote mountain village in Japan, where a young local woman and a visiting school teacher become aware of the presence of a legendary phantom dog, 'Inugami'.

With interesting details about craft paper-making and local myths that bolster the more familiar dream sequences and romantic narratives, this is too idiosyncratic and subtle to qualify as 'J-horror', but has the visual bravura and dramatic bones to bare comparison.