Even though Quentin Tarantino, Sam Raimi and Guillermo del Toro are known to love horror, It’s not often that you hear the opinion of American director Martin Scorsese when it comes to films that stand out in this genre.
Indeed, Scorsese has hardly touched the genre in his entire filmography, aside from the 2010 dark thriller, The sinister islandwith Leonardo DiCaprio and Michelle Williams.
The truth is that terror has somehow crept into many of his films. The creepy crime film the promontory of fearfrom 1991, undoubtedly has undertones of dread.
Scorsese has singled out one of his favorite modern horror films. A film that marked him and does not belong to Hollywood, but to Japan.
Martin Scorsese’s best Japanese horror film
Regard treatment, the bizarre 1997 crime story by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Far from the linear horror of Hollywood, This Japanese story is a twisted police drama that follows a bewildered detective trying to get to the bottom of a series of gruesome murders.each of them perpetrated by people psychologically manipulated to kill.
Scorsese commented on the film: “(Kurosawa) is an absolute master of light, framing and pacing, and he has such control over all three that there are moments in his films when the slightest gesture in the corner of the framing causes a thrill”.
treatment It can be described as horror, but it also moves on multiple thematic levels: psychological thriller, complex human drama and even experimental auteur cinema. Kurosawa’s intent is to disturb and upset, creating a film that is all the better for its ambiguity.
Scorsese agrees: “Kurosawa doesn’t exactly work in the horror genre. Rather, his films are filled with a strange dread. Something has arrived in many of them, no one knows exactly what or how or for what purpose: reality remains intact except for an occasional disturbing little detail, which turns into violence and irrationality”.
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Describing director Kurosawa as “a true master of cinema,” Scorsese says he can recommend all of the director’s films he’s seen, including Charismasince 1999, Sittingof 2000, ed Bright future2003. “Together with to presswho deals with ghosts on the Internet, treatment It’s his scariest film,” Scorsese added.
“There are extraordinary images and moments treatment which will haunt the viewer for a long time, and I guess I should say it’s not for the faint of heart. But be brave, because it’s worth it. Kurosawa is a great director.”
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The story revolves around a series of murders that took place in Tokyo. Common elements in the cases are: an X etched in blood on the victim’s neck, and the fact that the killer is close to the victims, but can’t remember anything.
Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma try to find out what happened, but their investigations hit a dead end. Finally, a man named Mamiya emerges as a common link between the murders.
Rather than resorting to plot twists, Kurosawa gradually creates a labyrinth that blends terror with confusion, in a tactic that exemplifies the ingenuity of both his filmmaking and writing.
Source: Clarin
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