If you loved Ghost Sweeper Mikami, try Hiruko the Goblin
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theysit in Comedy / Fantasy / Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to Ghost Sweeper Mikami, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Hiruko the Goblin is
A shuttered schoolyard in autumn, dead leaves scraping brick. Fresh graffiti hides claw marks on the science block’s door. A child’s voice hums off-key in the janitor’s closet. Something wears a stolen face, stacking teenage heads onto pincered torsos. A digger with notebooks and a backpack follows the trail of wet footprints; his shadow flickers when he pauses. Chooses the quiet dread of 90s J-horror rather than melodrama.

