Bright Future
Asian Cinema
•
1h 55m
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 115 mins | 2002
Kurosawa's disquieting slow-burn focuses on Mamoru (Tadanobu Asano), a young, divorced father and employee at a hand towel factory who, with his co-worker and only friend, Nimura (Joe Odagiri), begins entertaining homicidal thoughts about their boss (Takashi Sasano) after Nimura is entrusted (and soon develops a strange fascination) with Mamoru’s poisonous pet jellyfish. While "Bright Future" suggests a departure from Kurosawa’s run of much-admired J-horror films—all the while representing an artistic breakthrough for its expressive use of digital video—this lean and eerie picture loses none of his fascination with impending apocalypse and creeping dread.
Up Next in Asian Cinema
-
To the Ends of the Earth
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 120 mins | 2019
This rare film made outside Kurosawa's native Japan is also some of the closest he's come to outright comedy. When TV host Yoko (J-pop sensation Atsuko Maeda) travels to Uzbekistan to record a new episode of her travel show, the country's unfamiliar ... -
Creepy
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 134 mins | 2016
It's a classic Kurosawa set-up: forced to retire after a hostage situation goes violently astray, a detective retires to the suburbs with his wife, only to find investigative instincts piqued by a young girl whose family mysteriously vanished. Things...
