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My favorite living director has just released 'Tokyo Sonata' in the US. Critics like it because it's not a formal horror movie like his prior works. Much of it feels like his other movies anyway: He finds so much horror in everyday life and this one concerns the utter collapse of a Japanese family.



I prefer his older movies like 'Pulse,' which was remade by some idiot here. Best of all were 'Cure,' about an incredible contagion that makes people kill someone very close to them, 'Charisma,' about a tree that kills everything for miles around it, and 'Bright Future,' about a Tokyo whose young people face a grim future enlivened by gorgeous poison jellyfish.



Kurosawa--no relation to the venerable Akira ('Seven Samurai') Kurosawa--started out directing 'pink movies' for Japan's softcore porn audience. He is a busy man whose imagination can render anything.



I still haven't seen all of his movies, which are very rarely shown in US theaters. They don't always make sense, which is usually very important to me, but I can't argue with some. They contain a world with so many features and moods and impulses that it's like visiting Kurosawa's own dimension. You feel the truth.



Watch 'Cure' if you want to know what I mean.



Best, L

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beautifulmistake
04:33 Mar 18 2009

Very well written piece................I am a big fan of Kurosawa's........We were discussing him last week.

xBM

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