"In this stylish and thoroughly unnerving thriller, a Tokyo psychiatrist grows fascinated by one of his female patients, who claims to have been assaulted by her lesbian lover. Ignoring the warning signs, he pursues her. When she stabs and seriously wounds him, his fascination blooms into full-blown obsession. A modern film noir, The Enchantment is closer to Patricia Highsmith than pulp. Its mixture of sensuality and irrationality is recognizably rooted in Nagasaki's earlier independent films, but it has a narcotic perfume all its own. It is set in obviously real offices, streets and apartments which progressively take on a surreal quality and eventually, when the characters enter their fantasies to confront their primal traumas, actually blur together to become conceptual spaces of the mind." --Tony Rayns