The Girl Who Seees Film Review

Dead people, of course. A tried and true formula. This Japanese straight to video doesn't have any scares or laughs if that was its intention, but it has some heart and a Sixth Sense surprise that I admit I didn't see coming. It is based like it seems every Japanese film these days on a manga and anime. Most of it takes place in a girl's high school that feels normal enough with lots of giggly girls and ghosts. It had once had a catastrophe with many dying. But sticking around. My four years almost crushed me. I can't imagine an eternity in high school. I still would not be able to pass trigonometry.

Suddenly one day Mika begins seeing the dead when she is doing a count of students. Plus one. She freaks. But Googles what to do. Ignore then. Good advice as we learned in Ricky Gervais's Ghost Town. If ghosts realize you can see them, they will all want you to do them favors. Tell my mom and dad that I love them. Tell my husband where the car keys are. Did I leave the oven on? So Mika ignores them but not before a little boy realizes she can see him and becomes the guest who won't leave.

Mika is played by Nanoka Hara who is so cute that she should be on permanent exhibit at a Kawaii Museum. Which I assume, Japan must have. Not sure if she can act since she spends most of the film either screaming or looking bug-eyed. But always cute. Things get a little complicated when she sees that the substitute teacher has a dark spirit attached to him. And her best friend Hana (Rinka Kumada) who just visited a funeral home brought an unseen soul who is very hungry. She has to save them. And a Taoist priest is nowhere to be found.