Beloved internationally as a classy pulp-meister, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been, I think, largely misread—it may be more accurate and entertaining to consider him a neo-surrealist, the only working filmmaker with a sensibility that concisely echoes the cool, irrational voice of Luis Buñuel. (Could that make Takashi Miike their industry's Dalí?) Kurosawa's innovative absurdism has always lurked under the moody J-horror surfaces, as anyone... More >>>