JAPANESE director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira ... film’s overall weirdness and creepiness. Barrett calls “Pulse” Kurosawa’s most nihilistic film, “unnerving and wonderful.” ...

They are stains. Not “there are stains” — though that’s accurate enough. “They,” as in people. Young men and women that once stood in claustrophobic rooms and spent hours in front of ...

Featuring interviews with Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse), Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge), and many more, the documentary is now streaming on Shudder. A pervasive feeling of dread. An uneasy certainty that ...

Erratic, prolific Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Pulse,” “Cure”) has, at his best, a peculiar genius for finding strangeness — often malevolence — gathering like dust in the ...

Although he's primarily known as a director of thrillers and horror movies, Japanese auteur Kiyoshi ... in Pulse, or the heartbreaking family saga in Tokyo Sonata, which revealed how well Kurosawa ...

The American version of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's “Pulse” mimics the plot fundamentals, but lacks any traces of Mr. Kurosawa’s creepy minimalism and conceptual rigor. Denmark gave the world ...

The J-horrors that catapulted Kiyoshi Kurosawa from reliable gun for hire under the Japanese ... ghosts pouring out of dial-up internet (Pulse, 2001), senseless murders upending pristine cityscapes ...

Leading this year’s guest roster, legendary filmmaker Kurosawa Kiyoshi will be honored with ... including “Tokyo Sonata,” “Cure” and “Pulse.” The festival will present premieres ...

Erratic, prolific Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa ("Pulse," "Cure") has, at his best, a peculiar genius for finding strangeness - often malevolence - gathering like dust in the shadowy corners ...