Veteran director Shun Nakahara spins this wild and woolly caper comedy about shellfish, typesetting, and literature from the spirit world. Hatano (Koichi Sato) ekes out a living as a freelancing typesetter in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa (Etsushi Toyokawa) -- a high school chum he hasn't seen in over ten years -- shows up on his doorstep bearing a bag of clams. Though he claims to be the director of a fast-growing trading company, Aikawa crashes on Hatano's couch for days on end. Hatano begins to have doubts if his former classmate is on the up and up. As the film progresses, we learn that Aikawa is in fact an incorrigible con artist. Just before dropping in on Hatano, he bilked a freewheeling debutante (Miwako Kawai) in Hokkaido out of a load of cash. He hatches another scheme when he finds a print out of novel that Hatano wrote while bombed on sleeping pills. Why not market this as a book written by ghosts from the netherworld? They approach a big-name publisher (Honami Suzuki) who immediately likes the idea, but sees through Aikawa's ruse and demands a cut. Soon the book is a massive bestseller. Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Based on the book Lie Lie Lie by Ramo Nakajima
