Kurosawa's weird look at the empty lives of modern youth is mysteriously eye-catching but nothing deeper.
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09/17/09
Bright Future (2004)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:14
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Tadanobu Asano and Joe Odagiri star as two friends who work part-time in a laundry factory in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's highly original BRIGHT FUTURE. Odagiri is Yuji Nimura, a messy, lazy slacker who has... [More]
Starring: Jô Odagiri, Tadanobu Asano, Tatsuya Fuji, Takashi Sasano
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Reviews for Bright Future
no less enigmatic, broad-reaching and majestically paced than a jellyfish.
11/21/07
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05/26/06
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09/26/05
a genre that's starting to get overplayed
03/08/05
Gradually establishes a sense of foreboding that is hard to shake, though it's not without its darkly humorous moments.
01/28/05
Kurosawa's mysterious film about Japan's disaffected and alienated youth.
01/27/05
No stranger to the bizarro social metaphor, [Kurosawa] somehow paints the film's title as honestly optimistic, winkingly ironic, and completely doom-laden at the same time.
01/27/05
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01/15/05
The movie has a curious and cumulative power.
01/14/05
It's a haunting, spooky journey into a world that embraces trippy ambiguity.
12/10/04
The most spellbinding aspect of Bright Future is that the surrealism sustains its own squiddish logic, concluding with one of the most breathtaking film finales of the year.
11/17/04
More high -- but strangely touching -- weirdness from acclaimed Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
11/12/04
Pretty to look at, but it's a slow-moving, meandering work that isn't as complex or mysterious as it appears.
11/12/04
...an enchantingly cryptic, ethereally photographed slice of somber surrealism that should definitely appeal to fans of David Lynch and Luis Buñuel.
11/12/04
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a prolific and sui generis talent from Japan, this quietly creepy film contains a hint of politics and a wealth of shivers.
11/11/04
Top CriticThe writer-director's story sense is far too distracted, clouding the film's themes and even its basic plotline and allowing only the most glancing insights into its characters.
11/11/04
Top CriticBright Future can be off-putting -- neither of the two protagonists attempt to engage the camera, and more woe is expended on mourning Mamoru than considering his victims.
11/09/04
That the film succeeds on the level of a thriller as well as of a philosophical reflection is a proof of Kurosawa as perhaps the best Japanese filmmaker of his generation.
10/27/04
Though admirers of the director's eerie, elegant horror tales Pulse and Cure will find Bright Future rather more lugubrious, Kurosawa's latest turns out to have a surprising emotional pull and a truly transcendent final shot.
01/31/04
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