'The Vanished' (2006) - Makoto Tanaka.

On an assignment for a lurid magazine, melancholy reporter, Sota Kaneishi (Sôkô Wada) investigates the bizarre discovery of a dead child without any visceral organs! Once at the desolated, almost completely abandoned village, the macabre mite's singular physiognomy proves to be the least disturbing attribute to this forest-dwelling terror Tyke! Well acted by a fine cast, this bleak J-Horror treat has spooky set-pieces, and a rich atmosphere of slowly creeping dread, concluding excitingly in a thrilling, albeit oblique finale! While I very much enjoyed 'The Vanished', some may balk at the vague resolution, the mostly splendid text offering very little explanation over these sinister sprogs manifestly supernatural origins.