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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Kurosawa Kiyoshi

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Kurosawa Kiyoshi at IFFR

  • Retribution

    The literal translation of the Japanese title of the film is ‘The Scream’. In the case of Kurusawa Kiyoshi you may think both of the psychological fea

    • Maestros: Kings & Aces
  • Charisma

    Police inspector loses his way in a forest, and how. Surreal and mysterious thriller by international breakthrough Kurosawa Kiyoshi (no relation).

    • no cherry blossoms
  • Barren Illusions

    Is love possible in a world where we have freed ourselves from our desires? In this ironic investigation into alienation, Haru and Michi dream of esca

    • no cherry blossoms
  • Tokyo Sonata

    Kurosawa Kiyoshi, the masterful maker of occasionally dark, always strange films, wanted to make a very ordinary film this time. A film about a man wh

    • Spectrum
  • Ko-rei

    A misunderstood medium seizes on the kidnapping of a girl to raise his status. A psychological thriller that questions the usual ideas about spiritism

    • main programme features
  • Penance

    Kurosawa, always exploring the boundaries between art-house and genre films, gives us a fascinating TV series about a vengeful mother seeking her daug

    • Signals: Changing Channels
  • Real

    Kurosawa is one of the most-screened filmmakers at this festival. During the past 20 years, he has had a new film virtually every year – and this year

    • Spectrum
  • Seventh Code

    Low-key crime comedy set in desolate, post-Communist Vladivostok. Japanese businessmen undertake dubious transactions as pop idol Atsuko Maeda (also i

    • Mid-length
    • Spectrum
  • Cop Festival – Curated by Shinozaki Makoto

    Japanese film makers each indulged themselves for ten minutes on the genre of the police film. With the assistance of familiar faces and surprising ne

    • main programme features
  • Doppelgänger

    Kurosawa, the Japanese master of modern sci-fi weirdness and modest budget invention gives us existential shivers as the living are haunted by their d

    • main programme features