Saturday, April 20, 2024
Latest:
Hollywood Gothique
LA Cinema Gothique

Kurosawa’s Retribution to screen at JFFLa

Steve Biodrowski 0 min read

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s horror-thriller from 2007 screens on three separate occasions at the Japan Film Festival in Los Angeles this month. Kurosaw is one of the leaders of the J-Horror field, with the impressive KAIRO to his credit, which was remade as PULSE for U.S. audiences. The story follows Detective Yoshioka, who is investigating a mysterious murder case. Clues begin to appear that point to him being the killer. As the investigation progresses, even he begins to wonder whether he may be the murderer that he is pursuing. Twitch.com reviewed the film at the Toronto After Dark Festival back in 2006 and called it an “excellent ghost movie that revisits some familiar themes and images from previous Kurosawa films and yet somehow makes them fresh and frightening all over again.”

Screenings are as follows:

  • Friday, April 10 at 5:30pm at Laemmle’s Monica 4-plex (1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica 90401)
  • Monday, April 13 at 9:45pm at Laemmle’s Monica 4-plex (1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica 90401)
  • Saturday, April 18 at 7:45pm in the Downtown Independent Theatre.  (251 S. Main Street, Los Angeles 90012)