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Award-winning filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa delivered one of the finest entries in the "J-Horror" cycle of films with this moody and spiritually terrifying film that delivers existential dread along with it's frights. Setting his story in the burgeoning internet and social media scene in Japan, Kurosawa's dark and apocalyptic film foretells how technology will only serve to isolate us as it grows more important to our lives. A group of young people in Tokyo begin to experience strange phenomena involving missing co-workers and friends, technological breakdown, and a mysterious website which asks the compelling question, "Do you want to meet a ghost?" After the unexpected suicides of several friends, three strangers set out to explore a city which is growing more empty by the day, and to solve the mystery of what lies within a forbidden room in an abandoned construction site, mysteriously sealed shut with red packing tape. Featuring haunting cinematography by Junichiro Hayashi (Ring, Dark Water), a dark and unsettling tone which lingers long after the movie is over, and an ahead-of-it's-time story which anticipates 21st century disconnection and social media malaise, Pulse is one of the greatest and most terrifying achievements in modern Japanese horror, and a dark mirror for our contemporary digital world.

Run Time 119 mins approx.
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Actor Haruhiko Kato Kunmiko Aso
Theatrical Release Year 2001
Main Language English
Number of Discs 2
Region 1 A

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My favorite Kurosawa film. Decent picture quality.

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Melancholic and very moody tech horror. Definitely a slow burn ghost story, but really gets under your skin and into your head. Kurosawa is a master of dreadful sounds and liminal spaces. Despite all that, it's also a beautiful and poetic film. It's a bizarre odyssey you go on with these characters - all of whom are well written and fleshed out. I've seen this once before (streaming) so i'm happy to have it now from Arrow in my humble collection. I'm reading this movie was shot on an Arriflex camera in 35mm film. I can't find many tech specs beyond that, but upon watching a few scenes from Arrow, it is a grainy, dark, and very analogue looking film. I don't know if it was shot like that on purpose or if it's the transfer quality but the Blu-ray is similar looking to a DVD. Again, maybe this was the Kurosawa's intention to capture tech from that time, maybe it was the film budget, hard to say.

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