no less enigmatic, broad-reaching and majestically paced than a jellyfish.
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11/21/07
Bright Future (2004)
68 %
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Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 13
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release: Nov 12, 2004 Limited
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 odd dreams at night of a future of hope and... [More]
Starring: Jô Odagiri, Tadanobu Asano, Tatsuya Fuji, Takashi Sasano
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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09/26/05
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
Top Critic 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
Top Critic 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
Top Critic ...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 Critic The 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 Critic Bright 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
Top Critic 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
Kurosawa strains to find a parallel between jellyfish and his characters' disaffections.
01/30/04
A remarkable companion piece to Gus Van Sant's similarly haunted, lyrical, allegorical Elephant.
10/20/03
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