Unrated
Runtime: 2hr 4min
Written & Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa and Daiken Okudaira
Premiered at Venice International Film Festival August 30, 2024
Released in US (limited) July 18, 2025
RT: 93% critics / 61% audience
Currently streaming on Criterion or available to rent
Synopsis
Yoshii lives in Tokyo and resells goods on the internet as a side hustle while working in a factory. When Yoshii takes his reselling gig to the next level and quits his day job, he and his girlfriend leave the city for a house in the country. There it seems that Yoshii is being targeted by an unknown assailant. But with a profession that traffics in pissing a lot of people off, which of his enemies has it out for him?
Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing the quarterly release from Oz Perkins, Keeper, opening in theaters November 14.
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Unrated
Runtime: 2hr 4min
Written & Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa and Daiken Okudaira
Premiered at Venice International Film Festival August 30, 2024
Released in US (limited) July 18, 2025
RT: 93% critics / 61% audience
Currently streaming on Criterion or available to rent
Synopsis
Yoshii lives in Tokyo and resells goods on the internet as a side hustle while working in a factory. When Yoshii takes his reselling gig to the next level and quits his day job, he and his girlfriend leave the city for a house in the country. There it seems that Yoshii is being targeted by an unknown assailant. But with a profession that traffics in pissing a lot of people off, which of his enemies has it out for him?
Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing the quarterly release from Oz Perkins, Keeper, opening in theaters November 14.
Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 38min
Written & Directed by Osgood Perkins, based on the short story by Stephen King
Stars: Theo James, Tatiana Maslany and Christian Convery
Released in theaters February 21, 2025
RT: 78% critics / 59% audience
Synopsis
Twin brothers discover their father’s dark secret - a toy monkey whose drum playing equals a grisly death from someone nearby. They soon learn that the monkey is attached to their family, bringing destruction wherever it turns up.
The Bloodlust
Unrated
Runtime: 2hr 4min
Written & Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa and Daiken Okudaira
Premiered at Venice International Film Festival August 30, 2024
Released in US (limited) July 18, 2025
RT: 93% critics / 61% audience
Currently streaming on Criterion or available to rent
Synopsis
Yoshii lives in Tokyo and resells goods on the internet as a side hustle while working in a factory. When Yoshii takes his reselling gig to the next level and quits his day job, he and his girlfriend leave the city for a house in the country. There it seems that Yoshii is being targeted by an unknown assailant. But with a profession that traffics in pissing a lot of people off, which of his enemies has it out for him?
Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing the quarterly release from Oz Perkins, Keeper, opening in theaters November 14.