Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's filmography—more than 40 features produced across nearly 45 years—may seem indomitable at first glance, but it takes just one viewing to spark a tireless obsession. While a pioneer of the iconic J-horror aesthetic, the director seems capable of anything. This new program evinces Kurosawa's multivalent genius at full strength: the suburban scares of "Creepy", metropolitan disaffection of "Bright Future", and cross-cultural unease of "To the Ends of the Earth" ultimately comprise a vision of him as both unparalleled genre craftsman and sharp social critic.
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Bright Future
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 ... -
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... -
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 ...
