Ryuhei Kitamura's ("Versus") "Sky High" the movie is based on a late-night television series adapted from a popular horror manga serial. In the series, Yumiko Shaku stars as Izuko, the Gatekeeper at the "Gate of Hatred" that stands at the netherworld that separates this world from the afterlife. She gives three choices to the dead (who are either victims of an accident or a murder) who visits her: to abandon their hatred and reach the eternal paradise; to haunt the world of the alive as a ghost; or to avenge themselves and go straight down to Hell. This movie is an excellent prequel to the series that fleshes out the story of Shaku's character who used to be an ordinary woman, and details how she became the Gatekeeper.