Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Doppelgänger, Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Michio Hayasaki, a brilliant developer of medical instruments, is working on a robot chair, equipped with artificial limbs, for people who are completely paralysed. He feels he is being pressed by his employer Medical Cytech to come up with a successful design at short notice and he is in danger of burning out. Then, one evening, he thinks he sees his double. Hayasaki has the shock of his life: superstition suggests that meeting your double means you will soon die. But, after a confrontation with his maladjusted doppelgänger, it becomes clear that Hayasaki could take advantage of his violent tricks. The double reduces Hayasaki’s lab to rubble, clears another double out of the way, hires an assistant for Hayasaki and comes up with a new lab. But in the end, one of them will have to perish…Read More »

SYNOPSIS
Something‘s wrong and Etsuko is one of the first to notice. It‘s not just the sky that looks different, Etsuko suddenly begins hearing strange noises and an increasing number of inexplicable things are happening around her: mirror surfaces are distorting and people‘s behaviour is changing. They keep dropping things and their arms seem to be aching. When Miyuki thinks she sees a ghost in her father and newscasters begin predicting incessant rain on a global scale, all the signs seem to indicate that the end of the world is nigh.Read More »

It is a talker of the Keirin who has risen from the bottom by making the first escape cut to my good technique. But before him, Prince seirabara, Prince of Keirin, always stood, and Wataru felt sorry. Kiyohara, who was synchronized with Wacoal at the Keirin school, made an invincible streak record in the school and won a series of consecutive wins in the race in this season. Although he tried to fight against the defeat of Kiyohara, he was the ozoshi of the zaibatsu, and Kiyohara, who left the real world due to his sudden illness, lost his enemy.Read More »

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Though he has made terrific mainstream dramas, such as Tokyo Sonata and Shokuzai/Penance, when Asian film lovers hear the name Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the first thing they’ll likely think of is the gifted Japanese director’s ghost and horror movies (Pulse, Journey to the Shore). It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that for his France-set Daguerreotype (Le Secret de la chambre noire),a feature with a lot of firsts — Kurosawa’s first project shot abroad; his first in another language; his first with a European crew… — that he falls back on a familiar genre.Read More »

An early TV film by Kurosawa, one of two for the Dramada (1990-1993) series. Stars Kurosawa regulars Ôsugi Ren and Suwa Tarô. Read More »

Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.Read More »

An early TV film by Kurosawa, one of two for the Dramada (1990-1993) series. IMDb lists runtime as 47 minutes – this is only 23Read More »

The life of a schoolteacher is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.Read More »

A country girl visits Tokyo in search of her college heartthrob. Here she meets horny students, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and Yoshioka who has become a campus nobody.Read More »