Masahiro Higashide
Pub. Date
2016
Summary
"Kira returns ... Death Note follows the story of Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook from a Shinigami (Death God) named Ryuk that grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose name and face he knows. The series centers around Lights attempts to create and rule a world cleansed of evil as a God by using the notebook, and the efforts of a detective known as L to stop him. Set ten years after the events of previous...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Summary
Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the **Venice Film Festival** for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller shot in stunning 8K. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku (Issey Takahashi, Kill Bill) senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria,...