That was creepy. It's not much fun, but it's not meant to be.

Ayaka Komatsu plays Yuri, a prostitute. Her father died. Her unbelievable scumbag mother walked out on her children, leaving Yuri with a sibling (Satoshi) to look after, a massive debt and no legitimate employment opportunities. Death of a child? That wasn't enough to bring back Mum. She didn't even bother attending the funeral. What will excite her is breaking into Yuri's flat in search of two million yen that Yuri doesn't have. Mum knows her daughter was forced into prostitution and thus expects her to have money.

Incidentally, Ayaka Komatsu's acting debut was as Sailor Venus in the 2003 live-action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon TV series. She was terrible in it. They all were.

The film begins with Satoshi's birthday party. He wouldn't have died if he'd had more family around him, e.g. a sister who wasn't forced to sell her body and break a promise to come home on time.

So... yeah, cheery. Yuri's sullen and miserable throughout, which is understandable. There's no nudity, though. We see underwear and that's it. Yuri's call girl agency looks after her well, with her manager regularly barging into the hotel rooms to stop clients from getting rapey. However, that manager hates himself and his work. The only genuinely nice character here is a girl so stupid that she sees prostitution as a career step up and she's proud of being able to take confidence from her work. She thinks the agency's other girls are nice, even when they're leeching money off her. She's got no clue.

That idiot has a phone app with which she talks to her dead grandmother. She mentions this to Yuri, who downloads this dodgy-looking software and uses it. She hears Satoshi's voice. These scenes gave me the willies, not because they're scary (they're not) but simply because NO NO NO, DON'T DO THAT, IT'S AN INSANELY BAD IDEA.

I was right. This film contains no happy endings for anyone, although there's a splendid outcome when Yuri's mother learns the hard way what happens to evil bitch hate sink characters in a horror movie. That I enjoyed. Otherwise, though, the film's somewhere between "dreary" and "distressing". It's about children who got abandoned by parents, became prostitutes, chose to enter a J-horror ghost situation and met fates they didn't deserve. The film's also quite good, though.