In love with his client’s wife, American lawyer Jack Miller faces his fear at the sea and accepts an invitation for a day cruise on Tokyo Bay. But what should have been a pleasant day on the water soon turns horrific for all involved.
This short movie stars Daniel Gilies, Ryo Ishibashi, Yoshino Kimura, Gregory Pekar, Katshuirio Nagono, Ian Moore, Miho Ninagawa, Tom Irvine and Ethan Amis.
We start in a flashback. Two boys are in a boat. The younger boy, Sean, is trying to get a cap he lost in the water. The older boy, Jack, tries to tell him to stop but before he can, the boat tips over. The over boy grabs the boat but the younger one flails in the water until he eventually goes under.
Jack Miller wakes from a nightmare. He goes to the bathroom to wash his face and sees a cap floating in the sink. He washes his face again and an arm reaches up and grabs his face. He wakes again and is floating in a boat. He sits up and sees the cap floating in the water. As he tries to grab the cap, the dead boy, Sean, jumps out of the water and grabs him.
The next day at his office, Jack gets a call from a client asking him to meet him at the marina. When he arrives, he meets the client’s wife, Yuri, in the club house. They talk about their situation while the client, Eiji, watches from the boat. When Eiji finally walks into the club house, he invites Jack out onto his boat. Jack is reluctant to accept at first.
Once on the boat, the two men discuss legal business. When Eiji ask what he should do, Jack responds by asking him to trust him. Eiji says he will trust him but Jack should never betray him. At lunch, Eiji begins to talk about adultery and what he treasures most.
After the meal is served, Eiji decides to take the boat out further for some more fun but
something gets stuck in the rotor. Eiji demands Jack dive into the water to fix the problem but he refuses. So Eiji dives into the water but what he thought at first was sea weed turns out to be something all together different.
When Eiji returns to the boat, he’s changed; almost non-responsive. Jack and Yuri try to radio for help, but when Jack hears someone calling his name on the radio, he assumes it’s his dead brother. Eiji shows up dragging the anchor and talks to Yuri as if he is someone else. He is – possessed by his dead first wife. He attack Yuri.
Later Jack is confronted by Eiji in a showdown. Jack eventually gets the upper hand. Meanwhile, Yuri is locked in the bathroom which begins to flood and as she tries to escape, Jack is attacked by Eiji’s severed arm. Before he can free himself, Yuri drowns, but before she does, she sees how her husband’s first wife died.
Jack frees the woman he loves but they can’t find a way to escape the boat. Yuri becomes possessed by the first wife or at least that’s what Jack thinks until Sean comes to rescue from the delusion.
Jack and Yuri escape into the open sea, but Eiji’s first wife comes after Yuri again. And once again, Sean is there to rescue them both.
I love, love, love J horror.
Japanese horror has a quality that is so much creepier than anything I’ve seen produced here in America. Oh don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of America films that measure up to Japanese horror, but it just seems that the Japanese do it better.
This anthology of Master of Horror is no exception. It’s been quite a way since a film, even a short one or one made for television, has given me the creeps. Dream Cruise did just that.
Not only did Dream Cruise give me the creeps, but it was relentless. That’s part of the charm, if you will, of Japanese horror. You get to a point where you think nothing else can happen (and no offense, that’s where American films usually end), in Japanese horror, it doesn’t end. It keeps going.
I’m giving this short piece of work 5 out of 5 bloody stumps up. Good job on giving me the creeps, keeping the suspense going where most would end, and some pretty good special effects. And what’s better for Valentine than a good old fashion story about love, love lost, revenge, and a woman’s scorn.
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