Year: 2005
Duration: 115
Reiko has been a famous author since her first book was published, when she was very young. But now she has writer's block and her agent suggests she move to a small village in the country. Here she meets an archeologist who has just unearthed a thousand-year-old mummy. Strange things start happening to Reiko and although the woman believes she has material for a new novel on her hands, she begins to think her life is in danger.
"It's not that I'm specifically interested in the occult, but I think the fundamental question that we wind up being obsessed with throughout our lives is what happens to us when we die. […] But once you start to make a story, you have death; the death of a main character or a side character. The truth is, I'm no clearer about what death is than I was as a child. So the childlike questions remain: What happens when you die? Is it all over? Is it just nothing? Is there some way to communicate with those who have died?" (Kurosawa K.)
Biography
film director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Kobe, Japan, 1955) studied at Rikkyo Daigaku and then worked as assistant, director of short films in 8mm, and early productions for the video market. In 1997 his metaphysical thriller Cure gave him his first success at the Tokyo International Film Festival. His later works, most of which have participated at the world’s top festivals, have made him one of the new authors of Japanese cinema. His short film Soul Dancing was presented in 2004 at the Torino Film Festival, where he returned the following year with Loft. In 2008, Tokyo Sonata, starring Koji Yakusho, won the Jury Prize in Un certain regard at the Cannes Film Festival, a section he returned to in 2015 with Journey to the Shore, which won Best Director.
FILMOGRAFIA
Suito Homu (Sweet Home, 1989), Katte ni shiyagare! Gyakuten keikaku (1996), Hebi no michi (Serpent’s Path, 1997), Ningen gokaku (License to Live, 1998), Kumo no hitomi (Eyes of the Spider, 1998), Karisuma (Charisma, 1999), Oinaru genei (Barren Illusions, 1999), Kaïro (Pulse, 2001), Akarui mirai (Bright Future, 2003), Dopperugenga (Doppelganger, 2003), Ghost Cop (2004), Shi no otome (Loft, 2005), Sakebi (Castigo, 2006), Riaru: Kanzen naru kubinagaryû no hi (Real, 2012), Sebunsu kôdo (Seventh Code, 2013), Kurip (Creepy, 2016).