Ghosts that don't scare us. Her dead husband appears to Mizuki to properly close his earthly life before finally leaving. Or maybe Mizuki has gone mad in the absence. Kurosawa talks about many things, but delicately and quitely. Ghosts also play the piano, and make us shudder. Melodrama with one foot beyond life. "I don't wanna die," says someone who is already dead. That is the sadness of a ghost.