Shinku means "deep red" as in dried blood. Written by Hisashi Nozawa, who committed suicide last year, this is an intense drama about two victims of the same murder. The first is the hapless survivor of a family massacre Rina Uchiyama. The second is the daughter of the killer Asami Mizukawa. Ten years after the crime, with the killer about to be executed, the survivor befriends the daughter's killer and sets in motion an elaborate revenge plan. Director Takashi Tsunikoshi handles the material well, fashioning a convincing and intriguing mystery out of the wary friendship between the two young women across the tracks. He also coaxes excellent performances from Uchiyama as the confident college student, and Mizukawa as a tattooed barkeep with a violent husband. The story slowly descends into bloody horror and climaxes with a reconstruction of the original massacre of the family, a crime that echoes the still unsolved murder of an entire family in Setagaya a few years ago. A creepy, all-too-real psychological horror story.