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Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director known internationally for psychological horror and thriller films such as Cure (1997) and Pulse (Kairo, 2001). His work often foregrounds atmosphere, silence, sound design and themes of alienation.

Started directing in the 1970s; gained Western recognition with Cure (1997); often explores loneliness, urban malaise, and uses silence or unsettling sound design as key elements.

DeBaser reviews praise Kurosawa's mastery of psychological horror and thriller forms, highlighting silence and sound design, urban alienation, and unsettling ambiguity. Cure and Pulse are recurrently celebrated as masterpieces; Loft receives mixed criticism. The reviews emphasize atmosphere over explicit explanation.

For:Fans of psychological horror, J-Horror, art-house cinema and viewers interested in atmospheric, ambiguous films.

 It's worth it, being one of the most beautiful Eastern (and not only) films of all time.

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 "Death is an eternal isolation" a specter sighs with difficulty at the end of this "Pulse," a film that does not want to be a simple horror, does not want to frighten, nor shock with peaks of senseless violence.

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 A woman is found dead with strange cuts on her throat.

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