Sweet Home

Film - 1989

7,0

7.5K

Sweet Home it's a movie with Nobuko Miyamoto, Shingo Yamashiro, Fukumi Kuroda, Juzo Itami, Ichiro Furutachi Full cast. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Original title スウィートホーム, runtime 102 minutes. Genre Horror.

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Balkan Castevet

Horror with ghosts, as per J-horror tradition, directed by a young Kurosawa. The film features typical J-horror themes and some aspects that Kurosawa will explore and delve into further later. The now abandoned villa of the Mamiyas, the place where the story will take place, it is among weeds, branches, trees therefore in a place where nature is taking its revenge on urbanization, a duality often present in this type of film. The beginning shows the shadows of lady Mamiya (villain of the film ) and son play and in fact in the film the shadows in the villa will be alive. J-horror cinema is full of remorse and feelings, lady Mamiya, like many other ghosts in this type of film, projects her feelings to the extreme and being responsible for the death of her son, she takes the children to the furnace to let her son play, so as not to let him be alone so in her, Lady Mamiya's, she is doing her duty as a mother. Ghosts seen as traumas from the past that the protagonists then reflect are typical of these films, here it is interesting to note how the ghost's shadow contrasts the electricity, even when Emi turns on the projector it will burn. Electricity therefore in a certain sense is technology, modern society in contrast with the past.Kurosawa is a director who will insert critical socio-political politics into his films, in Sweet Home, although not at the levels of his masterpieces, a slice of greedy society is shown, when the authorization to proceed with production, filming, inside the villa is given only for mere business purposes without mentioning the curse but rather playing on it. The feelings and emotions of the characters, especially of the most central group of the film i.e. Kazuo, Emi (Kazuo's daughter) and Akiko will be connected by the actions of the ghosts. Emi pushes to get her father engaged to Akiko because she misses her mother and this makes her Read all

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A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.