チャイム
Directed by:
Kiyoshi KurosawaScreenplay:
Kiyoshi KurosawaCinematography:
Kōichi FuruyaComposer:
渡邊琢磨Cast:
Mutsuo Yoshioka, Tomoko Tabata, Ikkei Watanabe, Seiichi Kohinata, Hana Amano, Junpei Yasui, Kôji Seki, Giko, Noa Kawazoe, Kōki IshigePlots(1)
Matsuoka is a teacher at a culinary school. One day, his student Tashiro says something strange during class: “There’s a noise, it’s like a chime. Someone is sending me a message.” The school administration warns Matsuoka that Tashiro is a little strange. Tashiro then announces that half of his brain has been replaced by a machine and resorts to drastic measures to prove it. In class a few days after this incident, a female student called Akemi expresses discomfort at the way the sight of a whole chicken makes her feel. Matsuoka is filled with a vague sense of unease. A strange horror starts to creep into his life, both at school and at home. (Berlinale)
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Has the failed cooking teacher developed a psychological disorder after a trauma? Or has he already offed his family, and everything is just a delusion occurring in his mind? Or is he comfortably settled in the midst of that metallic sterility, troubled only by the smell of burnt onions? Is there something of Shintoism in it? Does it get triggered by the doorbell, the passing train outside the window, or someone touching the stainless steel kitchen countertop? As usual, Kurosawa offers few answers, leaving the viewer to deal with the ambient madness spreading through society on their own. The director did leave one clue, though. According to him, the image is weak and surprisingly low in information, while the sound has a broad capacity to express things that the image cannot.
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