他是我的荣光

一出根据经典传说《四谷怪谈》改编的舞台剧正在进行紧张的排练，当红女明星后藤美雪（柴崎幸 饰）及其人气平平却花心浪荡的男友长谷川浩介（市川海老藏 饰）分别饰演最终成为怨灵的阿岩以及负心武士伊右卫门。现实和戏剧相互映射，让二人越来越分不清两者间的界限。长谷川与新人女优朝比奈梨绪（中西美帆 饰）和美雪的助理仓田加代子（麻衣子 饰）暧昧不清，美雪如同阿岩一般看在眼里，忍气吞声，心中的郁闷和怨念则不断累积。和梨绪交际的长谷川彻夜不归，这令她的女友彻底陷入了癫狂失智的状态。沉湎爱欲的一群人，仿佛都受到了恶灵的诅咒……。Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past: he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness. (http://www.input2002.com/en/film/24418.html)。