# Love Ghost (2001)

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**Original title**: *死びとの恋わずらい*
**Runtime**: 95 min
**Genres**: Horror
**Directed by**: Kazuyuki Shibuya
**Written by**: Naoyuki Tomomatsu
**Starring**: Risa Goto, Ryuhei Matsuda, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Asumi Miwa, Shinji Takahashi, Hitomi Miwa

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A deadbolt clicking at 3:17 a.m. in a house that once held childhood sneakers under the stairs.

A girl unpacking photos finds Ryusuke’s old birthday invite tucked behind the fridge—his name still legible in crayon.

A quiet click-track of every horror syntactist’s wet dream.

**Mood tags**: dread, slow-burn

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