It goes into Ryuusuke trying to fit into school and eventually meeting up with an old friend of his, Midori. In the manga, the main character is Ryuusuke, a sixteen year old boy who moves back to the town where he grew up ten years after he and his family left it behind. The movie changes a great deal from the source material, with the plot, characters, and ultimate ending all being very different. It is four volumes and works quite well at both tension and a creepy factor. Now, Lovesick Dead (the manga) is probably one of my favorite Junji Ito stories. While I will never give this movie an award for being amazing, it works quite well for what it is, an adaptation of a really good manga. The rest of it enjoys some great acting, some really decent directing, some fitting musical cues, and some great settings. I actually enjoyed a good majority of this film, only finding the last third or so of the movie truly mediocre. No, it's not perfect, and no, it's not a very good adaptation of the original manga, but it works in its own convoluted and odd way. It is a fairly well made movie when all is said and done. I had once heard the argument that Kakashi was the serious Junji Ito movie equivalent of Uzumaki in terms of quality and story, but I'm going to disagree with that and instead say that Love Ghost should be the equivalent. Where Uzumaki is goofy and kind of fun to watch, Love Ghost is handled pretty seriously. Love Ghost (or Lovesick Dead, Undying Love, or Shibito no koiwazurai) is a pretty interesting film when compared to Uzumaki, with incredibly different tones throughout the movie and a great deal done differently. The manga in that case was actually horror, but the movie was more like a comedy with a few horror overtones maybe-kind of. See, Uzumaki, although a fun movie to watch is not even close to being a horror movie. Hell, it may even be on par with Uzumaki, although I'm not sure how much that is worth exactly. It's better than Kakashi or Marronnier without any single doubt in my mind. Okay, this movie is not precisely what I could ever call "good," but it's better than many of the other Junji Ito film adaptations I've seen. Love Ghost isn't bad.? Are you serious, me? Did you seriously think it was. just give me a moment to collect my confused and befuddled thoughts. Junji Ito movie adaptations, why do I keep coming back to you like some kind of ex-lover bent on winning you back? What is wrong with me that I keep expecting quality in these movies when all there is is.
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