Kairo = Pulse / a Kadokawa Pictures, NTV Network, Hakuhood, Inc. Imagica Corp. film ; a Kurosawa Kiyoshi film ; producers, Shun Shimizu, Seiji Okuda, Ken Inoue, Atsuyuki Shimoda ; written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 10005 | Magnolia Home EntertainmentLanguage: Japanese Original language: Japanese Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publication details: Los Angeles : Magnolia Home Entertainmment, ©2006.Edition: WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Pulse
- Kairo (Motion picture : 2001)
- Director of photography, Junichiro Hayashi; editor, Jyunichi Kikuchi; music, Takefumi Haketa; visual effects, Shuji Asano.
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Main Library | DVD | WORLD Kairo | Checked out | 05/15/2024 | 33111009065331 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
As one of the most cutting-edge Japanese filmmakers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa once again wraps a lowbrow, much-maligned genre -- in this case horror flicks (which were the rage in Japan at the time of this release) -- around some decidedly highbrow philosophical concepts. At the film's outset, Michi (Kumiko Aso) and her cohorts at a rooftop nursery cannot get ahold of their co-worker, Taguchi (Kenji Mizuhashi), who has an important floppy disk. When she ventures over to his apartment, she finds him pale, listless, and unusually quiet -- that is until he suddenly hangs himself. While the suicide is disconcerting, what really freaks Michi out is that Taguchi's body seems to dissolve into the wall, leaving a sickly black stain. Meanwhile, college slacker Ryosuke Kawashima (Haruhiko Kato) logs onto the Internet for the first time even though he is not particularly fond of computers. Instead of stumbling into a porn site or a chat room, he finds himself in a most peculiar site -- he just sees ghostly images of other people going about their everyday life. Then the computer prompts him, asking, "Would you like to meet ghosts?" Even though he eventually pulls the plug, the machine still on occasion springs to life. He eventually consults a comely computer maven named Harue (Koyuki), who is also utterly baffled. As more and more Internet users seal themselves into their rooms with red duct tape and melt into black splotches, Kawashima and Michi independently come to discover that the Internet has become portal for an increasingly crowded afterlife. As Tokyo becomes increasingly depopulated, Kawashima and Michi cross paths. This film -- which also features cameos by Kurosawa regulars Koji Yakusho, Jun Fubuki, and Sho Aikawa -- was screened at the 2001 Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
In Japanese; optional subtitles in English or Spanish.
Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka, Masatoshi Matsuo, Show Aikawa, Jun Fubuki, Shinji Takeda, Koji Yakusho.
Director of photography, Junichiro Hayashi; editor, Jyunichi Kikuchi; music, Takefumi Haketa; visual effects, Shuji Asano.
Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2001.
Special features: The making of 'Pulse' : behind-the-scene footage; original theatrical trailer.
Title from container.
Aspect ratio 1.78:1.
A group of young friends is rocked by the sudden suicide of one of their own and his subsequent ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. More deaths follow as the world is slowly being drained of life.
MPAA rating: R; for some violent images.