I love glazing kiyoshi.
We sometimes forget our past, willingly sometimes to the point of denial.
But it never can get away, as it haunts us like spirits from the after life.
Kiyoshi doesn't need rising music thats so oversaturated in the genre that is horror, he creates atmosphere by the sounds of creaking floorboards, by the sounds of footsteps and by the quiet wind in the background. Only using music to benefit that atmosphere but its always second fiddle to all the other things.
Like most humans, our detective becomes haunted by his forgotten past but it will always catch up to him.(Also watch my new 79 min film https://boxd.it/cQ1mBp )
Retribution
The ghosts of the past always come back.
Rating
5.0 (1)
Release Date
2/24/2007Runtime
104 minsOverview
A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins to question his identity. His realization of what seems to have really happened results in something much more sinister and larger in scope, and it leaves his psyche scarred.
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A detective chasing a serial killer gradually realizes the case is pulling him inward, collapsing the boundary between investigator and suspect. It's a slow psychological unraveling that uses ghostly imagery and mounting uncertainty to ask whether he can trust his own mind.
Mood
ParanoidUnsettlingDread-soakedContemplative
Themes
IdentityMemoryObsessionCrime
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
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Unreliable narrator
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Graphic violence
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