Kuru

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Hideki (Satoshi Tsumabuki) and Kana (Haru Kuroki) are the embodiment of happiness. Recently married, the Taharas are now waiting for their first-born. They're glowing! When a mysterious guest at work talks to his colleague about a certain Chisa, Hideki is dumbstruck. Chisa is the name he and Kana had planned to give their daughter, a decision they had kept to themselves. What's worst, the friend who had spoken to the stranger suddenly dies under horrid circumstances. Two years later, convinced that a supernatural force is threatening his family, Hideki reaches out to Nozaki (Junichi Okada), a writer specializing in the occult, and his clairvoyant girlfriend Makoto (Nana Komatsu) to rid himself of the entity that is casting a shadow on his happiness, which, as it turns out, may not be as genuine as it seems. (Fantasia International Film Festival)

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Filmmaniak 

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Deutsch Überraschend komplexes Drama-Horror (über ein frisch verheiratetes Paar, das ein Kind erwartet), das sich damit auseinandersetzt, dass Dämonen als Kindheitstrauma und erzieherische Fehler der Eltern gedeutet werden und als etwas, das wir uns ausdenken, um unsere eigenen Fehler zu entschuldigen. Abgesehen davon enthält es auch einen realen Dämon, der Menschen in Stücke reißt und sie zu blutigen Springbrunnen macht. In der verzweigten Geschichte, in der die Hauptfiguren nach und nach sterben und die Nebenfiguren ihre Rolle übernehmen, springt man oft zwischen verschiedenen Zeiten und Handlungssträngen hin und her (sowie Traumsequenzen, Halluzinationen und Visionen aus der Welt der Toten), wobei der Fokus auf den Charakteren und den psychologischen Gründen für ihr Handeln liegt. Der Höhepunkt ist ein fantastischer Exorzismus, an dem ein Dutzend Exorzisten, ein Dutzend Mönche und ein halbes Dutzend Tänzerinnen teilnehmen. Allerdings sind die Überkompliziertheit, die zu große Anzahl an Figuren und Motiven und der zerstreute Erzählstil große Hindernisse, die es nicht ermöglichen, den dargestellten Inhalt ausreichend aufzunehmen. ()

Zíza 

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Englisch I found it more of a critique of society than a horror film. Sure, it's got its antagonist, it's got its deaths, it's got its suspense and fear, it's got amazing imagery, it's got great cinematography, but underneath it all it just seems to be beating the drum of social criticism along the lines of actually raising a child vs. look how well we're raising our family/ how great our family is doing. It struck me that the author is basically saying, and literally showing, that all posers and internally corrupt or empty people need to be gotten rid of. Though of course through the characters he is saying that the poser may not mean it, that they can't "find fulfillment". It's simply a film that has several layers and is also divided into three parts. It has so much it wants to say that it doesn't have proper space to do so, despite its relatively long running time. It's a Nakashima that has accumulated a lot of ideas from Confessions that he wanted to vent. But he vented them quite impressively. As I've written before, the cinematography is great and takes an ordinary horror film somewhere further, the final exorcism in particular is very impressive and I like how there's a mix of Shinto and Buddhist rituals along with Korean shamanism. There are just a number of perspectives to explore in this film and it's definitely interesting. It works as a horror movie, as social critique, and as a visually evocative film. But it's clear to me that getting it all together is not for everyone. ()

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