[Photo &] "Bong Joon-ho's Admiration" Horror Master "Kiyoshi Kurosawa" Returns…[Chime] The Chilling Tension of Everyday Life

The living legend of Japanese horror cinema, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, returns with his new film 'Chime', which will be screened for domestic audiences on the 5th. This work has already garnered the expectations of genre fans by releasing stills that encapsulate the director's unique chilly mise-en-scène and overwhelming suspense before its release.

The released stills capture the strange tension that permeates an extremely ordinary classroom scene. Even within the static composition, Kurosawa's ability to weave suffocating horror is still effective. 'Chime' promises a high-level horror that tightens the audience's psyche using only sound and the actors' gazes, excluding artificial jump scares.

This new work is receiving more attention because Bong Joon-ho, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and other global masters have expressed their respect for Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who is returning to his specialty of 'suspense horror'. Critics are praising this work as a spiritual sequel to the director's representative masterpiece 'Cure', stating that it will showcase the essence of modern horror cinema.

The film begins to crack in the everyday space of a cooking class. Instructor Matsuoka encounters a student who suddenly exclaims, "Can you hear me, teacher? That sound. It's sending me a message," uttering incomprehensible words. The student's bizarre behavior, claiming that the chime bell sound controls them, gradually transfers to Matsuoka, leading the film toward an uncontrollable catastrophe.

Invited to the Berlinale Special at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, 'Chime' has already proven its artistic value. This special screening is expected to be an unmissable opportunity for horror enthusiasts who want to experience overwhelming audiovisual horror on the screen.