Chime

2024 [JAPANESE]

Horror / Thriller

14
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 3412 3.4K

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Plot summary

A chef's life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.

Director

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Photo
Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Top cast

Mutsuo Yoshioka Photo
Mutsuo Yoshioka as Takuji Matsuoka
Tomoko Tabata Photo
Tomoko Tabata as Haruko Matsuoga
Ikkei Watanabe Photo
Ikkei Watanabe as Makoto Otsuki
Shoki Matsui Photo
Shoki Matsui
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
412.59 MB
1280*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 44 min
Seeds 9
847.38 MB
1920*1080
Japanese 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 44 min
Seeds 77

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by athanasiosze 5 / 10

5/10. Not recommended.

Best part here: It's only 45 minutes. I can't even imagine the horror and the pain i would face if it was longer. And i don't mean, in a good way. Look, i respect Asian horror and there are some great movies. Of course, there are some great movies overall in which some things were unexplained. Some times, ambiguity is even necessary, all the mysteries don't need to be solved.But, this was too much. This is so cryptic and enigmatic that made me don't care at all, i mean, who are those people and why they suffer? Why should i invest? I am not even sure it's cryptic, maybe there is nothing beneath the surface, maybe it's just a mess, this is too random to be called an enigma.I gave it 5 stars because it's well acted and well directed. Visually, it's good, i can't rate lower a film when so many aspects of film making are above average.But, that's it.
Reviewed by potatoishere 7 / 10

Kurosawa's essay on the themes of The Cure

Let's get things straight: this short is not for everyone. Perhaps even more so than feature-length works of Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It's mundane, it doesn't care about answering questions or following the traditional rules of storytelling. You shouldn't try to decode it from the point of everyday rationality or even the traditional cinema structure.Instead, the movie is interested into raising an issue that was already present The Cure, updating it and setting the mood that compliments the idea. From my point of view, it's not so much a movie about depression, but a movie about the virus of violence that infects those who're troubled with their lives. As the movie progresses, we feel that the virus of violence spreads more and more. I think in a current day and age it's a really important idea, because sometimes I feel like the violence starts capturing minds of more and more people even in their everyday life.The lonely and mundane tone complements this idea by suggesting on how this disconnected, distant and superficial relationships complement the development of the virus.So yeah, I don't think it's the best of Kurosawa, but still, I feel like it's an interesting and important short movie. Just please, don't try to watch it as a conventional horror movie or even a conventional movie in general.
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