It's weird, ambiguous and a bit dull.

MITSUO = an unexpressive, potato-like painter who also works as a security guard because illustrations don't pay well enough,

MIHO = his girlfriend or wife who works at a magazine and sometimes sends him art commissions.

One day, Miho dies. Probably. It would seem. Except that we see her standing in the background while he's being a security guard. Next, she's eating in his apartment. She doesn't say or do much. Is she a zombie? Or a hallucination? That bloke who does Mitsuho's electricity doesn't seem to perceive her, anyway.

That's only half the film, though. The other half is flashbacks to their life when Miho was still alive. These scenes don't seem to go anywhere, but at least Miho's livelier than the lump-like Mitsuo.

Things get complicated when Mitsuo tries to dump Miho's body. A policeman finds them and Mitsuo's attempts to talk his way out of trouble only backfire. (He's the opposite of "slick".) Miho decides to "help", so Mitsuo now has two corpses to worry about. Is this a zombie situation now? The dead policeman's movements would support that reading and Mitsuo himself wonders about it, but we just don't know.

The film's ambiguous. How did Miho die in the first place? If the implication is that she died after Mitsuo accidentally pushed her, that's unclear from the cinematography and undermined by our lead actor's underreactions... but, frankly, the latter are problematic anyway. I don't dislike the film, though. Its ambivalence and slow pace are modestly spooky, while I like the unsettling ending. Is Miho transitioning again? In what ways should we be worrying about Mitsuo? He looks too relaxed to be sitting at the dinner table with a corpse. For all we know, this short film could be the subjective and partially hallucinated journey of a nascent serial killer.

It's interesting to think about. Less interesting to watch, but I don't mind it. The director and cast haven't made many films, incidentally, and those tend to be shorts.