The Man-Eating Tree of Dark Hill

It is hard to imagine anything more nightmarish and frightening than what happened in the autumn of 1984. This horrific incident at Dark Hill in Yokohama shocked all of Japan...

In the vicinity of Yokohama on Dark Hill Kurayami stands an ancient tree – camphor laurel. There once stood a prison where criminals were frequently executed. Locals say that this land has soaked so much blood that the ancient laurel was nurtured by death itself – and became... a man-eater. They can tell a horrifying story about how 40 years ago a terribly mutilated body of a little girl was found in its crown. Sometimes, cries and weeping can be heard from inside the tree... People call this place cursed.

...When detective and fortune teller Kiyoshi Mitarai read in the newspaper that a man's body, who had died under extremely strange circumstances, was found near the laurel, he immediately took up the investigation. After all, he had never encountered such a strange case in his practice. His friend, writer and artist Kazumi Isioka, has serious doubts about the success. How can one solve a crime involving supernatural forces? However, Mitarai believes in himself – and in his method...