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Kiyoshi Kurosawa Shines a Light
Winner of the 2008 Jury Prize at Cannes, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata is a lyrical family drama about a father emerging from a fog of denial after losing his administrative job when his department is outsourced to China.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
03-09-2009 |
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Ghost Town Tokyonew
The ghost is literally in the machine in this prototypical Japanese horror film that works primarily with dread and inexplicable phenomena rather than blood and guts.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-05-2006 |
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Tags: Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Film Sets Your Pulse Racingnew
The film initially proves slow and familiar, but the final section strays from Japanese horror convention to generate a genuinely apocalyptic atmosphere.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
12-15-2005 |
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Tags: Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Psychic Territory
One subculture of America's rec-room repertory theaters supports Asian horror and revenge flicks that Hollywood sees mostly as grist for remakes, including the work of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, perhaps the most ambitious of J-horror directors.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-02-2005 |
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Familiar Ringnew
Pulse rips its ghostly story line from better Japanese horror films.
Dallas Observer |
Luke Y. Thompson |
11-28-2005 |
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