A lamp shop keeper that leads souls back to life

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family. The film version of the stage production was shot during the play’s 2022 run at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo.

In a mysterious shop that sells lamps, the dead may return to the world of the living, while the living may not walk out alive.

In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday's end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop's seemingly lifeless denizens?

A lamp causes a ruckus in the shop while the shopkeeper is away.

A lampshade saleswoman has to get creative when she arrives at the door of a hesitant woman.

At the end of an alley, a “lighting shop” is always lit up, and the mysterious boss carefully wipes every light bulb, while customers of all kinds come and go. A nurse and her boyfriend move into a new apartment near the shop. She gradually discovers that everyone here has a secret that they can’t tell. On a stormy night, she walks into the lighting shop at the end of the alley, and the answers are slowly revealed…

A light leads the way, a book hides secrets.