Inugami

Akira, the young new schoolteacher in town falls for secretive Miki, an older woman who takes care of her family's urn that supposedly holds a forest wolf-spirit, inugami. People soon start disappearing and the town blames Akira.

Inugami is a 2001 drama fantasy movie directed by Masato Harada, starring Eugene Harada, Shiho Fujimura, Yûki Amami. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.0/10 from 1,132 votes and runs 1h 46m.