Retribution (film)

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Retribution
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring Koji Yakusho
Manami Konishi
Tsuyoshi Ihara
Hiroyuki Hirayama
Joe Odagiri
Cinematography Akiko Ashizawa
Editing by Nobuyuki Takahashi
Distributed by Avex Entertainment
Xanadeux Company
Release date(s) Flag of Japan February 24, 2007
Running time 102 min.
Country Japan
Language Japanese
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Retribution (叫 sakebi?) is a 2006 J-Horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

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[edit] Plot summary

Yoshioka, an experienced police detective, investigates the murder of an unknown woman dressed in a red dress. She was drowned on the Tokyo waterfront, in a pool of muddy water, but an autopsy reveals that her belly is full of seawater. Moreover, all the clues he finds relate to him: a button found at the murder scene matches one that is missing from one his coat, and fingerprints that cover the body match his own. Yoshioka realizes that the only viable suspect is himself, the problem is that he doesn’t remember a thing.

A ghost in a red dress soon starts appearing to him. As these apparitions become more intense and bizarre, more murders appear with the same drowning by salt water. As the later perpetrators are all found easily, a serial killer is ruled out and Yoshioka is stuck with one unsolvable crime that points to him.

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[edit] Interpretation

As F18, the ghost of the movie, is seeking revenge from past events of which every protagonist is apparently responsible, the horror in Retribution has been seen by some as expressing some kind of social illness and collective guilt in our contemporary world.[1][2]

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  1. ^ Retribution. Cinepinion (2007-07-06). Retrieved on 2008-04-20. “She may be a revenge-seeking ghost and proof-positive of an afterlife or she may simply be a psychological symbol of collective guilt that drives the characters to behave madly. "I died," she plaintively insists, "so everyone else should die, too."”
  2. ^ Retribution. d-kaz.com (2007-02-21). Retrieved on 2008-04-20. “This is Kurosawa at his most apocalyptic, portraying a contemporary world that seems decaying in its last days as it etches out an existence amidst the industrial detritus of the previous world...The horror film semantics no longer appear scary because they are being mobilized to express forlorn symptoms of a morose social illness.”

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