Items Matching Tag 'Kiyoshi Kurosawa'

Tokyo Sonata: The Masters of Cinema Series (Blu-ray Details)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa - the hugely acclaimed Japanese director famous for his groundbreaking, existential horror films such as Cure and Kairo - set Cannes alight in 2008 with this highly topical film - an eerie, poignant reflection on the mass uncertainty sweeping the world. When Ryuhei Sasaki (played by Teruyuki Kagawa) is unceremoniously dumped from his ‘safe' company job, his family's happy,...

Bright Future (UK) (DVD Details)
Friends Mamoru and Yuji are aimless young men stuck in dead-end jobs in a dreary factory in Tokyo. Mamoru, the more antisocial of the two, is obsessed with his pet project of acclimating a poisonous jellyfish to fresh water by gradually changing the water in its tank. One night, he inexplicably murders his boss` family and is sentenced to death. Yuji, left to continue the jellyfish experiment,...

Pulse (UK) (DVD Details)
Eschewing gore and easy shocks for a harrowing tone unique to his cinema, writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa`s Pulse is a dense and complex film whose metaphysical and psychological resonance will last long after the chills have subsided.