Reincarnation

An actress cast to portray Omori’s daughter Chisato, Nagisa becomes the focus of the haunting. She experiences vivid nightmares and unsettling hallucinations that blur fiction and past reality. As the film progresses, she seems to be drawn into reenacting parts of the massacre, culminating in a traumatic confrontation that echoes the original crime.

A college student drawn into the project, Yayoi encounters the spreading mystery as she meets another actress and becomes entangled in the past. Her curiosity drives her to question signs of a past life and the boundaries between reality and cinema. She navigates the increasingly unsettled environment with a mix of doubt and intrigue.

An actress who auditioned for Omori’s daughter, Yuka claims memories from a past life and points to a birthmark that echoes signs of strangulation. Her experiences link the past trauma to the present production, fueling the sense that the massacre can reach into the current story. Her role becomes a catalyst for the eerie connections between memory and identity.

Ayumi is the massacre’s lone survivor and Omori’s wife, whose testimony about the body being a vessel adds a chilling dimension to the myth surrounding the killings. Her perspective deepens the sense that the past’s ideas about life and death may persist across generations. She anchors the narrative’s ghostly logic with personal memory.

The professor obsessed with reincarnation, Omori’s actions lead to the massacre. He dies by his own hand, leaving behind a controversial legacy and the possibility that the body is merely a vessel for another presence. His life and beliefs drive the central mystery that successive generations attempt to unravel.

A horror filmmaker who resolves to make a movie about the massacre, Ikuo pursues the past through the act of filming. His project blurs boundaries between reality and fiction, drawing the cast into a feedback loop of memory and fear. He embodies the meta-narrative core of the story as cinema becomes a conduit to the dead.