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‘Cure’ 4K Restoration Trailer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Spellbinding, Grisly Crime Classic Is Coming Back To Theaters

September 22, 2021 5:35 pm

While he doesn’t quite get his due these days, Martin Scorsese once called Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira Kurosawa) “a major filmmaker…an absolute master of light, framing, and pacing...

‘The Third Murder’ Isn’t Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Finest Work But Is A Damn Good Thriller Nonetheless [Review]

Bradley Warren

July 20, 2018 3:23 pm

News, Reviews

The greatest of Japanese filmmakers have a chameleonic quality. Although these directors—Akira Kurosawa, for example—build their reputation around one genre (jidai-geki, or the Shogunate period epic, in the cas...

Hirokazu Koreeda Goes Genre With First Teaser Trailer For Thriller ‘The Third Murder’ [Watch]

Oliver Lyttelton

April 24, 2017 9:50 am

News, Trailers

As anyone who’s ever observed our Slack channel and spotted the custom-made emoji of the director we created, we’re big fans here at the Playlist of the Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda. For two decades now,...

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