Film festivals often offer numerous filmmakers from around the world an opportunity to showcase their talents, with many gaining acclaim from the festival circuit, gaining new fans in the process. Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa is no exception to this, as the veteran filmmaker, who has been making films since 1975, has won awards at the Fantasia Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Seattle International Film Festival, and the Tokyo International Film Festival, along with being nominated at numerous other events. After four decades of filmmaking, Kurosawa is showing no signs of slowing down, as he won the Un Certain Regard Directing prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival for his newest feature. Titled Journey to the Shore, or Kishibe no tabi, the film’s synopsis is as follows.
Mizuki’s husband (Yusuke) drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly comes back home, she is not that surprised. Instead,...
Mizuki’s husband (Yusuke) drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly comes back home, she is not that surprised. Instead,...
- 8/4/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Journey to the Shore
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa// Writer: Takashi Ujita, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is most revered for his genre work, including the fantastically chilling Cure (1997) and perhaps his most well known work, Pulse (2001). Kurosawa prizes a philosophical angle sometimes, generally lending his films compelling depth and a memorable strangeness, such as Charisma (1999), where a disgraced detective becomes embroiled over the fate of an eponymous tree. A step away from genre in 2008 was met with critical success in Tokyo Sonata (2008), plus a television miniseries in 2012, Penance, which just made its way to Us platforms this past autumn. His 2015 release, Journey to the Shore (formerly titled La femme de la plaque) is an adaptation of a Kazumi Yumoto novel and toplines a pair of Japanese stars Tadanobu Asano and Eri Fukatsu, the latter playing a woman whose husband returns home after mysteriously disappearing for three years. The pair embark...
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa// Writer: Takashi Ujita, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is most revered for his genre work, including the fantastically chilling Cure (1997) and perhaps his most well known work, Pulse (2001). Kurosawa prizes a philosophical angle sometimes, generally lending his films compelling depth and a memorable strangeness, such as Charisma (1999), where a disgraced detective becomes embroiled over the fate of an eponymous tree. A step away from genre in 2008 was met with critical success in Tokyo Sonata (2008), plus a television miniseries in 2012, Penance, which just made its way to Us platforms this past autumn. His 2015 release, Journey to the Shore (formerly titled La femme de la plaque) is an adaptation of a Kazumi Yumoto novel and toplines a pair of Japanese stars Tadanobu Asano and Eri Fukatsu, the latter playing a woman whose husband returns home after mysteriously disappearing for three years. The pair embark...
- 1/7/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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