Jun 6, 2009 | The Japan Times
It's so cool to play an oily toad
Actors who direct and star in their own films may be motivated by something other than vanity, but they usually manage to make themselves look cool - or at least cooler than they would have if someone else had been in the director's chair.
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa may have left behind the J-horror tropes in his deeply satisfying oeuvre, but with Tokyo Sonata, he remains incapable of breaking free from the metaphysical terrors that influence his ...