Loft
Loft is the next Kyoshi Kurosawa’s picture. For those who don’t know him, no, he’s not realted at all with the other Kurosawa.
KK has been one of the most revered japanese directors in the west those last few years. Some would say he’s like a respectable Takeshi Miike. Like Miike he’s working a lot, directing between 1 and 2 movies a year, and like Miike his filmo spans over countless different genres from auteuresque drama to yakuza skin flick, to horror movies.
The big different between the two would be that Miike is well known for his genre movies while Kurosawa is mostly known for his auteur movies.
Loft is a horror movie about ghosts (yawn) and mummies. It’s Kurosawa so we can expect something interesting but the plot is very boring :
“A prize-winning writer, Leiko (NAKATANI Miki), moves to a quiet sub-urban house to finish up her new novel with a help from the editor. That night while sleeping, she sees a man in a storage room transporting an object wrapped in cloth. She soon finds out that he is a renowned archaeologist, Professor Yoshioka (TOYOKAWA Etsushi), researching ancient mummies, and that object was a recently discovered mummy. Working late on her book, Leiko witneses a ghost and finds out that her room once belonged to a woman who had been misssing for a while. This brings unexplainable fear to Leiko as she starts to uncover more stories from the past.”
Then again, Kourei was another Kurosawa’s horror film and was very boring.
If you’re interested in Kurosawa’s work my personal recomendations would be Cure and Barren Illusions. He has yet to top those two movies, imho.
Anyway, Loft official site (in english) and the trailer(.wmv).
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