EARLY REVIEW OF NEW KIYOSHI KUROSAWA FLICK

Derek Elley reviews Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest movie, RETRIBUTION in Variety. Starring Koji Yakusho as a cop who's starting to suspect that he may be the target of his own investigation into a string of bizarre serial killings. RETRIBUTION follows the largely dismissed LOFT and if Elley is to be believed, it's a doozy.

"...a modern-day ghost story/serial-killer mystery that blends the helmer's typical ingredients of guilt, suggestion and waking madness in largely successful doses."

But let's hear from Elley in free verse. Cue the bongos:

"Takes this simple premise of a cop who may or may not be a murderer
And then skews it.
The ghost-woman appears to climb out of his bedroom wall
During an earthquake tremor.
Seems to resolve itself two-thirds of the way through.
Springs the first of two major twists
The occasional ear-splitting wail the ghost-woman summons up,
A sense of the spirit-world pressing against the real world,
Like a face against a window pane.
Never sticks to the ribs.
Classily made.
Lucid colors.
Chiaroscuro lighting.
Gentle dread.
Bubbling away."

Gone, baby, gone.