Charisma Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/charisma/ Sun, 08 Nov 2020 01:01:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.7 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Charisma Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/charisma/ 32 32 ‘Tokyo Sonata’ Comes Out March 13, 2009; Kurosawa Not Tackling Horror Anymore? https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tokyo-sonata-comes-out-march-13-2009-20081202/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tokyo-sonata-comes-out-march-13-2009-20081202/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:48:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9334 One of our favorite films of the year, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (no relation to Akira) “Tokyo Sonata” will open in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, March 13, 2009 followed by a national roll out. We saw the bewitching and strange family drama at the New York Film festival and were thrilled and blown away by how it masterfully weaved disparate tenors of absurdist comedy, drama and psychological horror so effortlessly.

Kurosawa is known for his J-horror films like, “Cure,” “Pulse,” and “Doppelganger,” but in recent years the filmmaker has been moving closer to a more subtler dramatic, psychological horror (“Charisma” “Bright Future,” which aren’t even “horror” per se); the pitch of which seems to have been perfected on ‘Sonata.’

Those wondering if the Japanese director will go back to his horror days (some of which has been aped and remade by American filmmakers looking to mine richer stories), will be disappointed.

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