Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 1997)

Last Updated on January 22, 2021 by rob

In Tokyo a string of murders in which all the victims have ‘X’ carved into their body convinces Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) that the killers may have been hypnotised. When a young man with unusual powers of suggestion named Mamiya (Masato Hagiwara) is arrested on suspicion his connection with an early 20th … Read the rest

Planet of Snail (Yi Seung-jun, South Korea, 2011)

Last Updated on October 6, 2020 by rob

A warm and engaging love story in the shape of a fly on the wall documentary about two souls who complement each other so perfectly it’s as if they need no one else. The man, Young-chan, is blind and deaf and his wife who suffers from spinal damage, Soon-ho, is barely three … Read the rest