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Jul 23, 2020 · Directed by Taku Tsuboi, the film focuses on a group of university students who investigate a series of cat killings on their campus. As their investigation proceeds, they reflect upon lingering angst from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and childhood cult experiences.
Mar 6, 2020 · Evoking the natural and human-induced disasters of 3.11 and the Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack of 1995, Sacrifice -confidently directed by Taku Tsuboi, who makes his feature film debut-ponders the cyclical nature of violence, trauma, and resentment as a highly original, brooding mystery and supernatural thriller that goes in delightfully ...
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- 2020-03-06
Nov 5, 2019 · Charting a gruesome spate of cat murders, a group of college students drawn into the trauma and an ex-religious disciple trying to find the perpetrator, Taku Tsuboi makes a confident debut with...
Jul 24, 2020 · But his influence lives on, as evidenced by last year’s Japan Cuts selection Red Snow and now again with Taku Tsuboi ‘s Sacrifice (Tsuboi actually worked on Kurosawa’s Journey to the Shore when he was still a film student).
2020 ‘サクリファイス’ Directed by Taku Tsuboi. THE WORLD NEEDS IT. Seven years after predicting the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake while she was unwittingly involved in a doomsday cult called Sacred Tide, college student Midori (Miki Handa) continues to have visions through unusual powers of premonition.
- Taku Tsuboi
Tsuboi graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image, then enrolled in the Department of Body Expression and Cinematic Arts at Rikkyo University. There, he worked on Makoto Shinozaki ’s Sharing (2014), Wish We Were Here (2018) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa ’s Journey to the Shore (2015).
Taku Tsuboi - JAPAN CUTS 2020Director, SacrificeBorn in Tokyo. Tsuboi graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image, then enrolled in the Department...
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