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
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
Written by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich
Stars: Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head and Sarah Brightman
Premiered at Fantasia FF July 18, 2008
Limited release in theaters November 7, 2008
RT: 37% critics / 73% audience
Synopsis
By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan - and those who can’t fulfill their plans have their organs repossessed. In the midst of this, a sickly teenager discovers a shocking secret about herself, her father, and their connection to GeneCo.
Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Caddo Lake, currently streaming on Max and available elsewhere to rent.
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.
