While The Samurai and The Prisoner may take its time rolling through its four seasonal vignettes, there are elements that will satisfy both fans of good, Columbo-style mysteries and Kurosawa’s dives into the darker parts of the human psyche.
Read MoreBumpkin Soup and Abnormal Family each take a hand at blowing up the conventional ideas about pink films and films in general.
Read MoreA retrospective on the short(er) films of J-horror maestro Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Read MoreIn Cure, Kurosawa finds an outlet for that national miasma as ordinary people find themselves both the victim and the perpetrator of senseless violence.
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