Last year, Kiyoshi Kurosawa made one of his most purely fun pictures, Before We Vanish, adapted a play by Tomohiro Maekawa into a genuinely zany science fiction film, a chance at a bigger budget the Japanese filmmaker relished through a clever homage to 1980s blockbusters, an elastic tone of silly graveness, and vibrant dashes of special effects. Kurosawa has unexpectedly returned to this same material (another play by Maekawa, who co-wrote the script) with a new film set in the same world: Foreboding, a 5-part miniseries shown in Japanese TV last September and trimmed by an hour into a straightforward but terrific and phantasmal thriller that premiered at the Berlinale. The premise is the same across the films: in advance of an invasion, aliens are quietly inhabiting the bodies of normal people, finding human guides to escort them around, and harvest “concepts” (work, love, death) from the minds of those...
- 2/23/2018
- MUBI
Leave it to Kiyoshi Kurosawa, our favorite director of B movies that look like art films (or are they the other way around?), to upturn the nostalgia for American blockbusters of the 1980s. Japan’s modern day Don Siegel or Robert Aldrich, who admires in equal parts Jean-Luc Godard and, based on his new film Before We Vanish, John Carpenter, does Super 8, Midnight Special and Stranger Things one better by jumping off from 30-year-old conventions and making a damn good film.A bloody prologue of a massacred family and the dazzled schoolgirl culprit (Yuri Tsunematsu) suggests Kurosawa is squarely back in the horror-thriller genre he is best known for, but the film’s tone and our expectations are suddenly taken an entirely other way by Yusuke Hayashi’s soundtrack shifting to a plucky comic theme. We learn that the girl is one of three aliens who have arrived on earth and inhabit human bodies,...
- 2/2/2018
- MUBI
Before We Vanish (Sanpo suru shinryakusha) Neon Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Screenwriter: Sachiko Tanaka, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, based on the play by Tomohiro Maekawa Cast: Masami Nagasawa, Ryuhei Matsuda, Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Hasegawa, Yuri Tsunematsu, Mahiro Takasugi, Masahiro Higashide Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 1/25/18 Opens: February 2, 2018 If you’re looking for […]
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- 1/29/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the Japanese filmmaker behind “Cure,” Pulse” and “Tokyo Sonata,” tackles the sci-fi thriller in his latest venture entitled “Before We Vanish.” Adapted from Tomohiro Maekawa‘s play of the same name, which has been revived on the Japanese stage many times, the film has echoes of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” which also had its invaders draining brains and ultimately trying to take our much beloved planet.
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- 9/28/2017
- by Jordan Ruimy
- The Playlist
Leave it to Kiyoshi Kurosawa, our favorite director of B movies that look like art films (or are they the other way around?), to upturn the nostalgia for American blockbusters of the 1980s. Japan’s modern day Don Siegel or Robert Aldrich, who admires in equal parts Jean-Luc Godard and, based on his new film Before We Vanish, John Carpenter, does Super 8, Midnight Special and Stranger Things one better by jumping off from 30-year-old conventions and making a damn good film.A bloody prologue of a massacred family and the dazzled schoolgirl culprit (Yuri Tsunematsu) suggests Kurosawa is squarely back in the horror-thriller genre, but the film’s tone and our expectations are suddenly taken an entirely other way by Yusuke Hayashi’s soundtrack shifting to a plucky comic theme. We learn that the girl is one of three aliens who have arrived on earth and inhabit human bodies, awkwardly...
- 5/24/2017
- MUBI
Strolling Invader
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writer: Tomohiro Maekawa
2016 was a notable year for Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who premiered his excellent genre thriller Creepy in Berlin and his French language debut Dauguerrotype in Tiff’s Platform competition.
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Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writer: Tomohiro Maekawa
2016 was a notable year for Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who premiered his excellent genre thriller Creepy in Berlin and his French language debut Dauguerrotype in Tiff’s Platform competition.
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- 1/6/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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