Five Flavours Festival. Asian Horror Night: Chime + Door
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TypeCinema Hall
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Hour
CHIME
Takuji Matsuoka leads a normal, fulfilling life. He has a family, teaches exclusive cooking classes, and is soon to have a chance to become head chef at a prestigious restaurant. A series of disturbing incidents during his lessons and a persistent sound he begins to hear, however, will cause his life to change drastically…
Evoking the atmosphere of the director’s greatest works, ”Chime” reminds us that a good horror is not about special effects, but about an idea and a precise command of cinematic language. In Kurosawa’s film, the threat lurks in the monotony of everyday life, enclosing and relentlessly crushing. Using the cool frames and soundscapes of the big city, the director subtly but consistently builds a world gradually permeated by icy fear and growing paranoia.
This screening will send shivers down your spine and remind everyone who the true king of world horror is.
CHIME, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 2024, 45'
subtitles: Polish and English
DOOR
Mrs Honda lives in an affluent district of Tokyo with her husband and young son. The family enjoys a beautiful apartment with an equally stunning view of the city skyline. She looks after the home and the child, while her husband provides for their comfortable life, an old-fashioned yet fairly common arrangement in Japan of the 1980s. At first, everyone seems content in this routine. That is, until the woman’s frustrations begin to surface and a persistent door-to-door salesman rings the bell, drawing her into open conflict.
Door is a brilliant time capsule of its era and one of the most important horror films in the history of Japanese cinema. Long considered lost, it now returns in a restored version. Today, it feels even more disturbing and charged with perversion than ever before.
DOOR, dir. Banmei Takahashi, Japan 1988, 93’
subtitles: Polish and English
