Lake of Dracula

Akiko is friends with a boat operator Kusaku, who had received a strange package, which turns out to be a white coffin.

Kusaku complains to the shipping agent and returns to find the coffin empty and is then attacked by the same vampire Akiko saw years earlier.

Along with Takashi, Akiko decides to return to the mansion from the past where they find the dead body of the old man who lived there along with his diary.

In it he states that while he is not Japanese his father built the house in a remote part of Japan as he was the descendant of a vampire and wanted to avoid putting others in danger.

Shortly after a young girl and her dog wandered into the house, found the woman's corpse, and encountered the son after which he was able to help them escape.

The son eventually broke free and fed on his father who wrote the diary before he succumbed to blood loss.

Natsuko collapses, the curse broken, as both she and the old man lose their vampiric features and return to being human corpses.

[10] Fredric Milstein of the Los Angeles Times called the film "superficial, unsubtle, humorless yet stylishly horrific, appealingly gruesome and exciting.

Rokuro Nishigaki's camera provides lots of atmosphere-loving, as it does, shimmering lakescapes, Martian-like skies and all things tangled branches can hide".