This second part of the Mononoke ghost story murder mystery is a fever dream of expressionism within an evil deadly LSD trip inside the inner chambers of the traditional Japanese Ooku hierarchy flavored with some Nouvelle Vague from the early Jean-Luc Goddard era. Technically and stylistically this movie is not for the photosensitive aka epileptic viewer. Problematic: Too many protagonists with too much exposition and a lot of name droppings at the beginning of the movie that distract and irritate. When it comes to the investigation of the murder mystery within this haunted inner chambers plot, I as a viewer don’t get invested into all the characters, their motivations and relationships. Mostly the characters stay one-dimensional and very distant. The plot is very high paced and dense, but it doesn’t succeed to transport to me the drama, the suspense and the thrill. I as a viewer am just a spectator and get a lot of colourful scenes and some conspiracies and Ooku politics that don’t grip. It’s difficult to rate this movie fairly because it has its own vision and style and crafts a tense atmosphere inside the inner chambers of the Ooku but as a murder mystery, as a supernatural drama or as a political thriller it fails unfortunately. In the end you get some hypervisual, experimental murder mystery that you nearly forget the next day what it was about. A pity, but worth a watch, if you like to watch a very unusual Asian animation movie.