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Akarui Mirai
Bright Future
Kyoshi Kurosawa
In a grim Tokyo, a luminous, lethal jellyfish floats in captivity inside a small tank. It belongs to Mamoru, a twenty-seven-year-old factory worker, who has decided to force it gradually to mutate into a freshwater creature. Mamoru shares intense sentiments of anti-social and unarticulated rage with Yuji, his only friend.
 

 
Screenplay/ Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Photography (colour)/ Takahide Shibanushi
Editing/ Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Music/ Pacific 231
Art Direction/ Yasuaki Harada
Cast/ Tadanobu Asano, Joe Odagiri, Tatsuya Fuji, Takashi Sasano, Marumi Shiraishi
Year of Production/ 2002
Running Time/ 92’
 

Kiyoshi Kurosawa was born in Kobe, Japan in 1955. He studied Cinema at Rikkyo University. He made his début as a director in 1983 with Kandagawa Warriors. He is one of most famous directors among Japan’s contemporary cinematographic authors. By Kiyoshi Kurosawa we recall: Cure (1997), Licence to Live (1998), Barren Illusion (1999) and Charisma (1999), Doppelganger (2003).


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