Elena is a half-Japanese, half-British teenager attending school in Japan. She feels like she doesn’t fit in, and most of her peers don’t help to alleviate that feeling. Then one day she inherits a curse from another student. Elena is now being followed by an entity, one that can only be seen through her phone’s camera, and can only be heard through earphones.
The Japanese title of the movie is also The Invisible Half (meaning, it uses English words, not Japanese). The title is written phonetically in its Japanese pronunciation(using katakana, which is often used for foreign words) as “inbijiburu hafu.”
To keep it simple, “hafu” is a term used in Japan for people who have one parent who is Japanese, and one parent from different ancestry. People labeled as “hafu” can feel alienated and subjected to bullying, especially in their school years. So, the title “The Invisible Half” likely has a double meaning of referring to the entity, but also to the main character, Elena, who is made to feel invisible by her classmates who consider her a hafu.
The Invisible Half was written and directed by Masaki Nishiyama, and it stars Lisa Siera, Miyu Okuno, and Runa Hirasawa.
You can now find The Invisible Half streaming on Screambox. I could only find the English dub on Screambox, but you can rent the movie in Japanese with English captions on Prime Video.
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