The paranoid suspicion that everyone else is in on some big secret they’ve excluded you from gets full play in “Best Wishes To All.” This debut feature from Yuta Shimotsu, which expands on his 2022 short of the same name, is a macabre allegory more redolent of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ early features than familiar J-horror tropes — even though Takashi Shimizu of the “Grudge” series is a producer here. The thinly veiled commentary on aspects of modern Japanese society may fly over offshore viewers’ heads streaming on Shudder, but genre fans will appreciate the bizarre story’s sinister, twisty progress.
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