Murai begins seeing the ghost on location, while his seasoned lead actress Hitomi Kurokawa, on whom he has a crush, senses a presence that repeats her lines during a reading.

Murai learns that crewmembers have reported a ghostly sighting in their studio during a previous shoot and witnesses Kurokawa’s agent fleeing in fear after handing her a protective charm.

One day, during a take, Murai sees the ghost lurking behind teenage actor Saori Mochizuki when she is playing around on the rigs above the set.

After seeing the ghost stalking Kurokawa’s character in the footage of the day, Murai fears for her life and rushes back to the studio.

By the time Nakata joined Nikkatsu in the 1980s, the company had been struggling as the availability of home video made theatrical pornography wane in popularity.

In 1991, Nakata left Nikkatsu and Japan to study the British Free Cinema movement in London's National Film Archive.

[3] When Nikkatsu collapsed in 1993, Nakata did not have a job to return to and decided to develop an independent film on director Joseph Losey.

[1] In 2003, the South African-based company Distant Horizon purchased the rights to Don't Look Up, initially with Hideo Nakata to direct the film again.