Stills from the film "Dollhouse" (released June 13th), in which actor Masami Nagasawa teams up with director Shinobu Yaguchi, known for "Water Boys" and "Swing Girls," have been released.
The film is a mystery about the protagonist Suzuki Yoshie, played by Nagasawa, who becomes embroiled in mysterious events after acquiring a doll named "Aya-chan" to ease the sadness of losing her beloved daughter. Director Yaguchi also wrote the screenplay, and the film combines a thrilling plot in which a cute doll suddenly turns around and torments the family, with elements of a mystery that is gradually solved.
The film includes tense scenes of Kae and her husband Tadahiko (Koji Seto) as they uncover the mystery of "Aya-chan," as well as scenes of the exorcist Kanda (Tetsushi Tanaka) who appears before the pair, plainclothes police officer Yamamoto (Ken Ken Yasuda) who is also investigating the mystery, and Tadahiko's mother, Toshiko Suzuki (Jun Fubuki), who is worried about her son and daughter-in-law. Additionally, scenes of Kae embracing the doll as if it were her own daughter, her daughter Mai (Aoi Ikemura) holding the doll dearly, and the doll undergoing an X-ray scan have also been released.
