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After the experimental but ultimately disappointing Loft (review), Kiyoshi Kurosawa is back with Retribution, a crime thriller with ghostly elements akin to Cure and Kairo. While I won’t tout this as Kurosawa’s return to form, it is a culmination of many of his films previous styles, and once again has a lot to say about the current cultural climate of Japan.
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I’m an admitted Kiyoshi Kurosawa fanboy. Cure and Kairo are masterpieces of modern Japanese cinema as far as I’m concerned, and his films are generally wildly unique and visionary. He cut his teeth in the horror genre, and I was definitely looking forward to him revisiting the realm of the macabre with Loft, his first foray into straight-up horror in 4 years. Maybe I was expecting something completely different, but this fanboy has finally been truly disappointed by a K. Kurosawa film.
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