View Poll Results: Best film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Retribution
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Loft
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Doppelganger
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Bright Future
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Seance
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Charisma
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License to Live
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Eyes of the Spider
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Serpent's Path
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Fukushu the Revenge Kienai Kizuato
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Door 3
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The Guard from the Underground
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Best film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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Best film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
One of the most underrated Japanese directors. The guy is excellent at his craft and never disappoints. He's got 2 films in the works right now.
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Simply voted for the only Kiyoshi Kurosawa film I've seen...Tokyo Sonata....an excellent film, but simply have not gotten around to this director yet. More films than time sometimes, but I'll get to him at some point.
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Pulse is an amazing existential horror film that got totally butchered when it was remade. It gets my vote for his best film. Cure is also excellent.
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Pulse (Kairo) is astounding. That said, I've only seen that, Cure and Doppelganger...all excellent. KK 's filmography is going to get a thorough work thru by me in the coming months. Threads like these always keep me coming back to this site.
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I voted other because I thought that was the option for "who?", but then I read the titles and I have seen at least one of them.
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I have not yet seen Tokyo Sonata but have heard alot of good things about it and need to see it soon. Pulse (Kairo) is an excellent film but my choice is the film that put him on the map & the film that introduced me to the man : Cure (Kyua). After watching it I could not stop thinking about it for days and come to think of it I need to watch it again soon. Here is a review of Cure by Midnight Eye (a website dedicated to Japanese cinema) and an interview with the man conducted by DVD Talk.
http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/cure/
http://www.dvdtalk.com/interviews/emerging_cinema.html
http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/cure/
http://www.dvdtalk.com/interviews/emerging_cinema.html
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Chose Pulse as well. Kurosawa dwelled deep into the loneliness and isolation of the Japanese population (still prevalent today) and made an effective, apocalyptic horror movie.
The "dancing" ghost in one of the scenes still freaks me out...
The "dancing" ghost in one of the scenes still freaks me out...
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Re: Best film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Haven't seen anything other than Pulse and I feel bad voting for it since I remember not liking it. Maybe I'll try something else by him sometime.
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Kaïro, a truly poignant horror film, though Charisma, Bright Future and Cure are all fantastic films in their own right. I've seen a few others, but these are the four I find myself continuously drawn back to.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/...read/192757848
Martin Scorsese's Review of 'Cure'
Martin Scorsese's Review of 'Cure'
I stumbled upon this glowing review Scorsese did for DirectTV when he was briefly employed there (too bad, they stopped doing it; Scorsese seemed more than happy to contribute). I saw this movie because Scorsese recommended it and clearly, the man knows great filmmaking/filmmakers.
Reviewed by Martin Scorsese
This is one of the very best films by the extremely talented Kiyoshi Kurosawa— for those of you who don't know the name or the work, he's no relation to Akira Kurosawa. He's an absolute master of light, framing and pacing, and he has so much control over all three that there are moments in his movies when the slightest gesture in the corner of the frame will send a shiver down your spine. Kurosawa doesn't exactly work in the horror genre. Rather, his films are filled with a strange dread. In many of them, something has arrived, no one knows exactly what or how or for what purpose: Reality is untouched except for a small, unsettling detail or two, which mutates into violence and irrationality. Kurosawa is a real student of cinema. Along with Shinji Aoyama, Makoto Shinozaki and a few other directors, he's the former pupil of the great Japanese critic and historian Shigehiko Hasumi. Each of them has absorbed the lessons of older American cinema and taken them to interesting and unusual places. Kurosawa, for instance, is a great admirer of Robert Aldrich, and if you didn't know it you'd never guess as much from simply looking at his movies. But it makes sense: They're both making movies about the world in a state of emergency, creating a troubling poetry of violence and upset. I can recommend every Kurosawa movie I've seen: Séance, Charisma, Doppelgänger, Bright Future and the more recent Retribution. Along with Pulse, which is about ghosts on the Internet, Cure is his most terrifying movie. The excellent Kôji Yakusho (he and Kurosawa have worked together many times) is a detective confronted with a seemingly inexplicable phenomenon: a series of murders in which the perpetrators are standing by unaware of how or why they did it, with red X's carved on the necks of the victims. There are startling images and moments in this picture that will haunt you for a long time to come, and I suppose I should say that it's not for the faint of heart. But be brave, because it's worth it. Kurosawa is a major filmmaker.
This is one of the very best films by the extremely talented Kiyoshi Kurosawa— for those of you who don't know the name or the work, he's no relation to Akira Kurosawa. He's an absolute master of light, framing and pacing, and he has so much control over all three that there are moments in his movies when the slightest gesture in the corner of the frame will send a shiver down your spine. Kurosawa doesn't exactly work in the horror genre. Rather, his films are filled with a strange dread. In many of them, something has arrived, no one knows exactly what or how or for what purpose: Reality is untouched except for a small, unsettling detail or two, which mutates into violence and irrationality. Kurosawa is a real student of cinema. Along with Shinji Aoyama, Makoto Shinozaki and a few other directors, he's the former pupil of the great Japanese critic and historian Shigehiko Hasumi. Each of them has absorbed the lessons of older American cinema and taken them to interesting and unusual places. Kurosawa, for instance, is a great admirer of Robert Aldrich, and if you didn't know it you'd never guess as much from simply looking at his movies. But it makes sense: They're both making movies about the world in a state of emergency, creating a troubling poetry of violence and upset. I can recommend every Kurosawa movie I've seen: Séance, Charisma, Doppelgänger, Bright Future and the more recent Retribution. Along with Pulse, which is about ghosts on the Internet, Cure is his most terrifying movie. The excellent Kôji Yakusho (he and Kurosawa have worked together many times) is a detective confronted with a seemingly inexplicable phenomenon: a series of murders in which the perpetrators are standing by unaware of how or why they did it, with red X's carved on the necks of the victims. There are startling images and moments in this picture that will haunt you for a long time to come, and I suppose I should say that it's not for the faint of heart. But be brave, because it's worth it. Kurosawa is a major filmmaker.