Pet Peeve (2013) — AI Story Visualization

Plot Analysis Summary

A town's irrational supernatural disturbances turn everyday life into a struggle for survival, leaving escape uncertain.

Story Structure — 5 Plot Phases

A House With No Welcome

A family moves into a new home while Seiji arrives by motorcycle and becomes trapped in shrubbery. Takumi's attempt to help him introduces the town's abnormal atmosphere.

Key Events

• Family Moves Into New Home — A family moves into a new home, beginning the film's chain of unsettling incidents. Location: New home
• Father Suffers Nosebleed — The father trips on a step and suffers a nosebleed, confusing and worrying the family. Location: New home
• Seiji Crashes Into Shrubbery — Seiji falls from his motorcycle and becomes trapped in dense shrubbery. Characters: Seiji Location: Dense shrubbery
• Takumi Finds Seiji — Takumi finds Seiji and attempts to free him from the strange predicament. Characters: Takumi, Seiji Location: Dense shrubbery

The Seat That Watches

Takumi starts work at a restaurant and struggles with its customers. Yoko warns him about an unseen customer connected to a particular seat, making ordinary work increasingly threatening.

Key Events

• Takumi Starts Restaurant Job — Takumi begins working at a restaurant and struggles with hectic customers. Characters: Takumi Location: Restaurant
• Yoko Warns About Empty Seat — Yoko warns Takumi about an unseen customer who sometimes occupies a particular seat. Characters: Yoko, Takumi Location: Restaurant
• Unseen Customer Returns — Yoko's repeated sightings suggest that the unseen presence is not an isolated occurrence. Characters: Yoko, Takumi Location: Restaurant
• Power Failure Separates Family — During a power failure, a family discovers that someone has vanished from their home. Location: House

The Sticker And The Death

Disappearances and violence spread through the town during a power failure. A three-hole face sticker appears, followed by a death that leads Seiji to suspect a supernatural connection.

Key Events

• Three-Hole Sticker Appears — A small sticker resembling a human face with three holes appears on a door. Location: Apartment door
• Neighbor Dies In Bathroom — A person in the neighboring room is found dead from a myocardial infarction. Location: Bathroom
• Seiji Connects Sticker To Death — Seiji realizes that the strange sticker may be connected to the neighboring person's death. Characters: Seiji Location: Neighboring rooms
• Takumi Is Attacked — A furious woman attacks Takumi, intensifying the town's increasingly violent abnormality. Characters: Takumi Location: Town

A Town Gone Insane

Takumi is attacked and later found injured in garbage. Yoko searches for him, but their disagreement over whether to leave reveals how deeply the town's danger has divided them.

Key Events

• Takumi Found In Garbage — Takumi is later found injured in garbage after the attack. Characters: Takumi Location: Garbage area
• Yoko Searches For Takumi — Yoko searches for Takumi after he fails to appear at work and finds him injured. Characters: Yoko, Takumi Location: Town
• Takumi Urges Yoko To Leave — Takumi concludes that the town is insane and urges Yoko to escape. Characters: Takumi, Yoko Location: Town
• Yoko Refuses To Run — Yoko refuses Takumi's proposal to run away from the town. Characters: Yoko, Takumi Location: Town

Escape Without Certainty

Seiji encounters the sticker and escapes the town, believing he has survived its threat. Later, the transformed Fuan City and the grandfather's warning imply that the danger may continue.

Key Events

• Seiji Encounters Sticker — Seiji encounters the strange sticker and becomes convinced that he must escape before dying. Characters: Seiji Location: Town
• Seiji Escapes The Town — Seiji finally gets out of town and celebrates as though he has defeated it. Characters: Seiji Location: Town outskirts
• Town Becomes Fuan City — The town merges with a neighboring city and becomes Fuan City. Characters: Seiji, Yoko Location: Fuan City
• Grandfather Explains Little Ochonan — Daiki's Grandfather recalls Little Ochonan and warns that its sinister form can bring misfortune to a family. Characters: Daiki's Grandfather, Little Ochonan Location: Fuan City

Story Breakdown

• Unsettling Arrival — The film introduces a new home, a bizarre accident, and a town that immediately feels abnormal.
  • Family Moves In — A family enters a new home, where the father soon suffers a disturbing accident.
  • Seiji Gets Trapped — Seiji falls from his motorcycle and becomes stuck in dense shrubbery.
• Restaurant Warnings — Takumi's new job exposes him to an unseen customer and Yoko's warnings about the danger.
  • Takumi Starts Work — Takumi struggles with customers and the hectic restaurant environment.
  • The Empty Seat — Yoko explains that an unseen presence sometimes occupies a particular seat.
• Vanishing Neighbors — The town's abnormalities become collective through disappearances, power failures, and unexplained death.
  • Power Failure — A family discovers that someone has vanished from their home during a blackout.
  • Bathroom Death — A neighboring person dies from a myocardial infarction after the strange sticker appears.
• Sticker Of Misfortune — The three-hole sticker becomes a possible sign linking supernatural activity with death.
  • Sticker Appears — A small human-face sticker with three holes is placed on a door.
  • Seiji Sees Connection — Seiji suspects that the sticker may be connected to the neighboring death.
• Takumi Under Attack — Violence reaches Takumi, while Yoko tries to find him and confronts the town's escalating insanity.
  • Furious Woman Attacks — Takumi is attacked and later found injured in garbage.
  • Yoko Searches — Yoko looks for Takumi after he fails to appear at work.
• Conflicting Escape Plans — Takumi believes the town must be abandoned, but Yoko refuses to run away from it.
  • Takumi Urges Departure — Takumi calls the town insane and urges Yoko to leave.
  • Yoko Refuses — Yoko rejects Takumi's proposal to escape.
• Seiji's Escape — Seiji interprets the sticker as a direct threat and makes a desperate attempt to survive.
  • Death Before Escape — Seiji becomes convinced that he must leave before the danger kills him.
  • Leaving The Town — Seiji escapes and celebrates as though he has defeated the town.
• Ongoing Supernatural Threat — The later transformation into Fuan City and the grandfather's account imply that escape may not end the danger.
  • Fuan City Emerges — The town merges with a neighboring city and becomes Fuan City.
  • Little Ochonan Explained — Daiki's Grandfather describes Little Ochonan as protective in one form but disastrous in another.

Directed by

Toshikazu Nagae

Key Cast

• Anna Ishibashi — Yoko
• Kenta Suga — Seiji
• Kodai Asaka — Takumi
• Kanji Tsuda
• Hitomi Kurihara