Watched all six episodes of the first season of Japan's Tokyo Mystery Sake. A young actor (Sugino Yosuke playing himself) averse to doing a horror movie is assigned by his agent to interview a series of persons who've encountered ghosts on his radio program and visit the places they'd been to, in preparation for his starring in the lead role of a horror movie. In each location, he is required to drink sake to open his psychic senses. The subtitle word "merging" is used to refer to the meeting of his intoxication with his fear. He is served a delicious dish in the company of his agent and interviewees after he survives each adventure. A horror comedy shot like a reality show, but it does have creepy moments.

The episodes are short, averaging 20 minutes each, and the whole season can actually be watched in one, long sitting. Sugino Yosuke plays the role with such spontaneity and naivete that one can't help but watch everything through the end. The places he visits are an apartment in which a woman in white appears; a cat cemetery; a home still inhabited by a stern man in his 70s, addicted to porn magazines featuring high-school girls; a love hotel room filled with ghosts beset with yearning, especially a jealous woman; a comedy theater built on the site of an old elementary school and haunted by the ghosts of an old woman, a boy, and a girl; and a stigmatized building with a dangerous ghost on every floor (a landlady stabbed to by a tenant after an argument, a murderer who committed suicide, a middle-aged man beaten to death by his friend, who afterward hanged himself, and another tenant who jumped off the roof).

In fact, all of these places could be anywhere in the Philippines!