Gutwrenching horror

It took me a few days to finish this movie since the first quarter of it is heartbreaking family trauma without any explanations of the supernatural stuff, so it's especially hard to watch for people who've experienced extreme family problems themselves.
You need patience to actually understand the story, as the whole truth is only revealed at the very end in favor of many red herrings throughout. This type of pacing was a little annoying tbh.
For me personally, the family story hit much harder than the actual horror elements. The "mysterious old woman with glasses who can actually do some sort of ritual/magic" clichee is also a little annoying but it wasn't too bad.
Contrary to probably many people, I actually like the ending. Poor Jaa only grew up with her father her whole life, and when he used his last ounce of strength to help her rescue his remaining family, he showed that he loved both Jaa and Ing and Ning equally. Now she gets to have a loving mother in Ning and continue to live once more. Poor Ing dying while trying to save her sister was very sad, though. She never showed anything but kindness towards a sister she never knew even at her young age.

Overall it was a very good movie, but I wouldn't recommend it to people suffering from family trauma who might feel triggered while watching this.

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Good concept, meh execution

Firstly, I think the whole Akina livestream subplot was incredibly redundant. Especially once they revealed that Mei and Hibiki's family had a connection to the jukai curse and the box for at least 13 years, I just felt like Akina and her whole deal had no place in the movie. It would've been fine without it since the box and the jukai curse are interesting and feel unique. They probably only added Akina cuz she was in howling village and ox-head village so they needed to add her in for the last movie of the trilogy.
Next, It's a shame they didn't explain why the box ended up in the house the couple moved into, and just used it as an excuse to kill a bunch of Mei's friend group. Compared to the other two movies, this one holds last place (although I wouldn't say it's a terrible movie).
The english name also sucks incredibly hard. Sure, it's a reference to Aokigahara forest, but just omitting the word "suicide" would make it fit the movie better in my opinion, since the topic of suicide isn't really explored in it and just focuses on the curse making people do things against their will. Also why the hell did Mei and Hibiki's mother sacrifice herself to save their kids when the stupid box will try to take them 13 years later anyway? Makes her death feel useless.

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