This film, "Last Winter We Parted" is based on a novel, "Thanks for your wishes, Kimi and Watarase", published in 2013. The main character, Kyosuke Yakumo, is an investigation researcher and writer. He has a fiancee' and they plan to get marry very soon. When he begins his research on a burned death murder case involving a beautiful blind woman for his next book, he finds out that the suspect in the case is a photographer..

A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.