After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case.
Kuripi, Kurîpî: Itsuwari No Rinjin, クリーピー, Жуткий, 크리피: 일가족 연쇄 실종 사건, 毛骨悚然, Језиви, Hamis szomszéd, 恐怖鄰人, 鄰家怪嚇, Kurîpî: Itsuwari no Rinjin
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I miss the old Kiyoshi. The can't-be-sold Kiyoshi. Back in the fold Kiyoshi. That was the bold Kiyoshi. Remember Cure Kiyoshi? That wasn't your Kiyoshi? 'Cause that was my Kiyoshi. Damn, that was fly, Kiyoshi! You came with Kairo, Kiyoshi. That shit was fire, Kiyoshi! Even Bright Future Kiyoshi, that ill repute Kiyoshi. I dug it all, Kiyoshi. So why'd you stall, Kiyoshi? And then that Journey to the Shore? You got some gall, Kiyoshi!
I miss the real Kiyoshi. I miss the real Kiyoshi. The danger you can't see but you can feel Kiyoshi. Stain on the wall Kiyoshi. Man, that was all Kiyoshi. Remember jellyfishin' mesmerism baller Kiyoshi?
I guess that Creepy's alright. I guess that Creepy's…
49/100
"A vision of absolute evil that somehow becomes more disquieting and suggestive as it becomes more obvious and literal," observes my A.V. Club colleague Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of one particular element in Creepy. Alas, I had precisely the opposite reaction to the movie as a whole, which stays masterfully true to its title for over an hour before abruptly shifting into...well, let's just say that I spent much more of its second half recalling Egoyan's The Captive than I would have preferred. Explanations cripple Kurosawa, who excels at evoking the uncanny but has no real taste for outright horror; Creepy is at its best when things are just...slightly...off, a quality embodied in everything from Teruyuki Kagawa's Asperger-y performance to the…
Looking for domesticity and order in a world that has none. Sorta like a Japanese The Stepfather only way more twisted. Also, the sickest of all comedies of remarriage slowing charting a debased way until family nucleus can finally move on.
Want to hear a real scary story?
Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you.
Back in the day behavioural researchers looking into why victims of abuse wouldn't leave obviously dangerous relationships did barbaric social experiments on animals.
They would get large groups of animals (mostly dogs) and torture them daily. Electrocute them. Brutalise them. For long periods of time.
And then they would bring in another group of animals and introduce them to the same cage. And when it was time to be tortured, the cage doors were open allowing escape.
The group of animals who had not experienced the torture would run away. Race for their lives. Meanwhile the group that was tortured daily would stay in the…
Hoop-Tober, year three, film #20:
Memories and isolation -- a piece shoved somewhere dark, drenched & cold, the most remote corners of the human psyche. Drifting along a current of chasmic gloom that could only be comprehended and recreated with such assuredness, as displayed here, by a mind with a much deeper knowledge of the unexplained movements and sudden jolts of the reality that exist in abnormal psychology -- its exploration, attempting to attune with brains blockaded by barriers impossible to break and desperately dispose of. Thoroughly unsettling, and consistently both one of the most repellent and absorbing of recent watches (but always difficult -- no matter the almost soft undercurrent of dreamlike hyper-realism), allowing us to peer, though only for…
This legit pissed me off cause how do you embark on a promising, suspenseful, mind bending, spooky, and mysterious atmospheric journey where nothing is quite as it seems, only to have deeply illogical and absurd plot developments?
Existe uma semelhança muito marcante com Parasita. Inevitavelmente algo daqui foi tirado. Não apenas o mistério que envolve a casa, mas a abordagem que caminha pelos mais diversos gêneros.
Como é característica de Bong John Hoo, Parasita ainda carrega uma abordagem de humor do absurdo. Em Creepy, porém, Kiyoshi Kurosawa enviesa sua narrativa para um diálogo de gêneros que não o fazem sair de uma atmosfera mais densa, profunda.
Drama, investigação policial e uma forma muito especial de relacionar características do horror e do mistério. A cada resolução apresentada, um novo conflito parece surgir.
Uma cena interessante que demarca a encenação do filme está no momento em que nosso personagem principal interroga Honda. A menina nos dá relatos de um…
If you go into this expecting another Cure it might be worth reigning in those aspirations. Creepy is effectively a film of duplicity. First of all it exists in two halves. The first hour is very slow burning but sets up a solid and intriguing mystery well enough, even though it's always obvious what route it's going to take. The second half goes way off over the cliff in terms of believability. The way that the twist is revealed is shocking but I was really hoping for something much more intelligent given the build up in the first hour. The lead villain is something of a masterpiece however. Kiyoshi Kurosawa depicts a man who first appears like a creepy neighbour…
Creepy. 2016. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
After watching Cure (1997), Wife of a Spy (2020), and Journey to the Shore (2015) we have decided to do a Kiyoshi Kurosawa marathon. Creepy (2016) is a Hitchcock meets Criminal Minds (TV show) dose of Japanese auteur (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) genius. As the Japanese crow caws in the background nefarious criminal activity is taking place in Japan and Koichi Takakura is requested to consult on a missing family (almost all members except the daughter). Kurosawa’s screenplay based on the novel by Yutaka Maekawa and co-written by Chihiro Ikeda is thriller awesomeness. This proves that among the aforementioned films Kurosawa is a chameleon and can add cinematic brilliance to any genre he chooses.
Creepy utilized…
