Tag: teruyukikagawa

Creepy has been touted as Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "return" to horror, but it feels, in its own right, like a new departure for the director. Where vintage Kurosawa fare was vague, mysterious, and mournful, Creepy is bracing, black-humored, and overt. A...

I caught Dreams for Sale as part of the fantastic lineup of the Japanese Film Festival in Melbourne (and other places in Australia). I feel compelled to write about it as it has stayed with me since viewing it.There is...

Uchida Kenji's Key Of Life is the sort of film that rarely makes its way to international audiences outside of the festival circuit and that, friends, is nothing short of a tragedy. Because as much as the typical distribution argument...

With Dear Doctor comes the feeling that something is always awry. It is greater than the sum of its parts and more complicated than it first seems. Coming across initially as a drama serial, the film eventually firmly places itself...

[Our thanks to Lauren Baggett for the following.]Well into the final reel of Golden Slumber, the climax was interrupted by an automated voice (bilingual: this is Quebec, after all) warning us that a fire alarm had been pulled, and that...

[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review which is being bumped up to the top of the page to coincide with its Fantasia screening today.]Golden Slumber fills my eyes, but what exactly is it I'm seeing? A man-on-the-run...

Golden Slumber fills my eyes, but what exactly is it I'm seeing? A man-on-the-run conspiracy thriller, mixing JFK and The Bourne Identity? Or a treatise on friendship lost, the repairing of bonds, and finding one's way "back home"? The film...

[Our thanks go out to Chris MaGee and Marc Saint-Cyr at the Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow for sharing their coverage of the 2010 Nippon Connection Film Festival.]Osamu Ino (Tsurube Shôfukutei), a small town doctor in rural Japan, has gone missing. Except...