KayVee

With the final twist being sorta open ended, I guess it's hard to say for sure, but if this is the case, it kinda undermines the main story. You have Kanae and her brothers who pretty much go back in time to rescue their grandmother. In a way, it's a closed cycle of events. Based on that logic, people who exit from the village are returned to their original time. This can be seen when Kanae and Kota find themselves back in current day, while the baby still remains in the past. Now, if we say that someone else from the village escaped somehow (through other people visiting from the future), she would find herself in her own time ie before the village was destroyed. But this doesn't seem consistent since the escaped mother would be the same generation as Kanae's grandmother (or rather, one generation prior). This means Ryotaro should be born around the same time as Kanae's grandmother, according to the movie's rules. I guess you could justify it by saying that the escaped mother gave birth to a child, who gave birth to a child who then gave birth to Ryotaro, but nothing in the movie suggests this. You could also say that the rules don't apply the same way and Ryotaro's mother somehow made it to the future, but that'd ultimately weaken my impression of the story.

I managed to understand most of the main plot. It's just that ending scene with Ryotaro that had me confused, main issue being that Ryotaro's real mother doesn't fit the story. Like, if the village was destroyed around when Kanae's grandmother was born, how did a preggo woman escape from a time when the village should've been under the dam? This made me go down the line of thinking that Kanae is Ryotaro's mother. I think Ryotaro refers to the ghost who was assumed to be his mother as "mother's friend" and at the end, he waves back at Kanae as if to say one last goodbye to his mother, when Kanae realizes that Ryotaro is waving at her as if to tell her that he's realized that she's his mother. It would explain why Ryotaro is shown to be a monster since this trait seems to be related to Kanae's bloodline. But then I'm not sure who the "mother's friend" would be in that context.

Well, whatever it is, I think the scene was a bit unnecessary since the story had wound up pretty nicely already.

Show is sloppily written and full of contrivances. Pretty much everything related to the events of the murder seem very clunkily executed. The detectives in the show are inept, so that the story can take place. Certain characters feel less like people and more like plot devices. It does a decent job drip feeding info early on, until it forgets that it's already answered questions that it's trying to keep viewers hooked with. Just before the end, it leaves viewers with some open-for-interpretation events coz the script writers probably didn't know how to fill in the gaps for themselves. If anything made the show easier to sit through, its the sub plots and most of the acting. The OST was good too, excluding that one song that they overused.

She doesn't. The guy drugs her and clicks compromising photos to blackmail her. Infidelity tag is probably because it's a theme that's persistent throughout the show, that somewhat is subverted once they reveal the truth.