Dread and unease ooze in abundance in this masterful, bar-raising existential psychological mystery about an exasperated detective trying to solve a series of inexplicable murders.
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Cure (1997)
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Category / Kurosawa, Kiyoshi
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Wife of a Spy (2020)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s polished if emotionally inert period film (his first!) is an anti-war espionage tale set in WWII Japan, featuring a standout lead performance by Yu Aoi.
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To the Ends of the Earth (2019)
The banality of cultural tourism as variety show is poetically expressed in the hands of Kiyoshi Kurosawa as a Japanese crew travel to Uzbekistan for work—it also features an underrated performance by ex-AKB48 J-pop star Atsuko Maeda.
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Tokyo Sonata (2008)
An uncommunicative Japanese family whose patriarch has lost his job is placed under the microscope in this Cannes award-winning melodrama by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
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Eternality Tan 