Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Dread as an ambient condition of modern life. Kurosawa's horror arrives in daylight, in offices and vacant lots, and is usually indistinguishable from depression or social collapse. Figures stand still at the edge of the frame. Very little is explained.

Signature

• Wide, static frames with something wrong at the periphery.
• Industrial ambience and plastic sheeting in place of a score.
• Ghosts as a symptom of isolation rather than as revenants with a grievance.
• Apocalypse depicted as gradual administrative failure.

Films here also carry Moral Ambiguity, Psychological Horror, Organized Crime, Loneliness & Isolation, Identity Crisis.