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From the brilliant mind that forged the horror masterpieces Cure and Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has once again made a work of art that relies heavily on the use of subtle, yet highly effective horror filmmaking. The movie focuses on a former chef named Takuji Matsuoka who is teaching cooking classes while waiting for a job. The entire frame is filled with the obsession with metal in this film. In the initial frames of the movie, we are briefly introduced to it, with a vertical pan from stainless metal pipes to the cold, metallic interior of the cooking school set up. We can also see the mother who obsesses about recycling soda/beer cans and the kids’ metal puzzle toy. We will witness the transformation of…
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Basicamente o Meshes of the Afternoon do Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Até remete a filmes como o Retribution e outros trabalhos que possuem essa ideia do espaço urbano como um não-espaço (ou um “espaço qualquer” na definição do Pascal Augé), mas é um filme mais explícito tanto na relação com o terror como na sua abordagem experimental. É até um pouco como se o Kiyoshi se livrasse de qualquer demanda por um apelo fácil e fizesse um filme mais conceitual, direto e sintético sobre os seus interesses. Aqui, essa questão da alienação e isolamento no espaço urbano, bastante comum no seu cinema, está relacionada a uma ideia de violência irracional de maneira menos justificada e mais franca. E talvez mais do que…
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In this 45-minute unsettling experiment, Kiyoshi Kurosawa provides an interesting new piece to his brand of unknown horror. It’s highly reminiscent of Cure and Pulse, but a sense of autonomy separates this textually and visually. Evil grows out of life’s safe banality in a classic Kurosawa setting, and no explanation is given. Instead of telling a coherent story, Kurosawa is content with letting visuals and sound do the talking. Between long takes and unrelenting scores, Chime is a terrific style exercise that may have benefitted from a clearer narrative, but it’s already scarier than most of its counterparts. Highly recommended.
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The uniquely hypnotic, ambient dread of Cure and Pulse distilled into 45 minutes of pure alienated menace. Paranoid ambiguity and trance (or curse) like possession where the unbearably still hum of a modern work/home environment is a tense precursor to horrifying violent urges has always been the name of the game for Kurosawa so I can see why some are declaring it a victory lap exercise in style, but there are so many wonderful little specific details to this as well: the idea that cooking is meditative process that calms negative emotions (“we feel fine even with dangerous things lying around”), his student asking him to explain his process to her “logically” right before he irrationally and dispassionately stabs into…
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The death rattle of the modern world, a corrosive asmr of samsara; a continuation of the final shot of Cure; a truly cursed text.
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Formalism comes naturally to Kurosawa, like walking or breathing; his frames, never ostentatious, somehow go from spare to pressurized without visible manipulation. Chime, which runs 45 minutes long, is , like so many of KK’s films, a diabolical paradox, an exercise in control describing a plague of dissociative behaviour; it could be a sequel to Cure except that there’s no psychic terrorist at the center, only a kind of free-floating, ambient madness that seems to pass freely between people and spaces, and maybe thrugh the screen as well. I’m certainly not feeling very well at the moment…
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa has long been regarded as a filmmaker capable of getting beneath your skin like no other filmmaker working. This (along with the likes of Cure, Pulse, and Retribution, etc) is another masterclass in capturing mounting paranoia and fear. Within just a 45-minute timeframe, this is both pure and existential, as well as profoundly creepy. Brilliant!
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even when Kurosawa experiments with genre formulas, leading them ad absurdum, it’s still scarier than 80% of the rest from horrorhausen.
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Uncanny and existentially terrifying in a way that I haven’t felt since the first time I saw Cure and Pulse. Not the first to mention this on this website but this is Kiyoshi with the B subplots stripped out until it’s almost pure form, practically abstract. More than an exercise in my opinion, everyday modern alienation pared down to abstract terror – almost like a horror Antonioni. Disassociation is always around the corner – I haven’t been this unsettled by a movie in years. And as always with the later Kiyoshi pictures it’s also a little masterclass in directing, but even more stripped down and essential here: not a shot is wasted, and it seems like not a second is wasted as well.
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One of the purest Kurosawa movies. Very direct and stripped about how his formal control can highlight unease and the malaise behind the spookiness. Very much for the fans, but why else make something like this.
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Invisible sounds of the modern world: putting out the trash, balancing work and family, between art and profit, all while dealing with a progressive existential alienation that slowly contaminates everything, even the actual matter of the world. A hitchcockian yarn plagued by Kurosawa’s eerie, ghostly formal games, both visual and especially sonorous. Nobody conveys contemporary social malaise quite so effectively, nor so precisely. That murder sequence under the difracting lights and sounds of the train was great.
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I had no idea this was only 45 minutes long, so it ended a bit abruptly for me. It was nicely shot. I loved the angles and the post colour grading, but I needed more. The story felt like it could have gone on significantly longer. I wanted that. oh, but I loved the last interview scene. That is how I feel talking to 99% of humans.
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Kurosawa working at his most stripped down, and the austerity is the point. A high-pitched tone intrudes on an otherwise banal setting, and from there the film treats violence not as something explained but as something contagious, a frequency that certain people are simply tuned to receive. That’s the through-line running back to Cure and Pulse: derangement isn’t an aberration in Kurosawa’s world, it’s latent in everyone, waiting for the right signal. What’s striking here is how the DIY digital…
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the Chime… can’t you hear it? yoroshiku onegaishimasu. ding… like a scream …ding my mind is dark and full of terrors, whispers the red witch ding… parched, I needed something sinister, cold, stark, extremely disturbing… all of the above? this satisfied my thirst. …ding for awhile. ding… I can still hear the Chime sensei, Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
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kurosawa’s works are always so intriguingly uncomfortable and ambiguous, and im here for it
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wow so unsettling and leaves you with so many questions but i love how short it is. i think it horror films work so well when they leave so many things unknown. the shots are gorgeous and the lighting is so purposeful, casting shadows that look like silhouettes and some beautiful sound design; taking away and giving sound at very precise moments i think its so good. it leaves so many things to the imagination and i love it
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I do not know what any of this means
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PPilauuu 8 月 19, 2026
Watched at Bytowne Cinema. Popcorn was shit.
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knowing how to make an unsettling horror film without relying on jump scares is great but anyone can do that, but making an unsettling horror film without going too deep into the lore of the horror or even showing the entity/the cause is something that kiyoshi kurosawa excels at. he knows what the imagination can come up with is scarier than anything so he lets the horror stay in the unknown. the unseen. he definitely killed his kid/kids at the end right?
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J’étais persuadé d’apprécier le travail de Kiyoshi Kurosawa qui, sur le papier, a tout pour me séduire, mais forcé de constater qu’il est pour moi d’une insignifiance rare. Je n’y trouve aucune qualité, sinon sa gestion des silences et de l’ambiance générale de ses films.
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you gotta admire kurosawa’s gift for generating dread from the most mundane of things
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whatever that means
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LOOVED the entire creepy and unsettling vibe about this
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Maîtrisé de bout en bout, ça faisait longtemps que j’avais pas vu un film aussi flippant et volontiers étrange, laissant au spectateur de larges parts de mystère.
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Cosa succede quando si guarda troppo MasterChef. Il film non ha mezza inquadratura brutta, assurdo lavoro, una bellissima rappresentazione dell’alienazione, attualissimo
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I think I’m too stupid or not mentally ready to understand this movie
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No le entendí y aun así me estaba meando del miedo
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why’s this guy always making movies about mysterious forces that pass around like a disease and make everyone crash out
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Would have been better if it was a bit longer. The sound design, atmosphere and cinematography are all phenomenal like it’s predecessors
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Decent short film with a haunting sound design.
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I don’t really understand this one but the atmosphere is good.
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subtle, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s too good with it!
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lowk this freaked me out real bad right at the last minute I absolutely love movies with good soundscapes but this is really clever IMO. Kurosawa is really good at showing everyday people grappling with themes of possession, violence and losing your autonomy — and for me the anticipation and irrational behaviour is a lot more terrifying than the typical horror plot in big films. The forced perspective is really nice too I can tell my eyes are being…
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Locura en su máxima expresión
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nobody explain the chime to me. i’d rather live in ignorance.
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Trinca-Ferro-Gabriel adora esse filme. Considera ser uma experiência auditiva fora do comum, imersiva, chocante, talvez até traumatizante. Trinca-Ferro-Pedro relata que seus ouvidos doem, mas que o filme tem cinematografia impecável e que o deixou com medo de japoneses. Trinca-Ferro-Laurie acredita que este filme seja um pesadelo sensorial fora deste planeta (lá da paraíba), mas que vale a pena ser experienciado.
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Je n’ai pas forcément capté la volonté du film, mais big up au son et à la tension qui était très bien faite, notamment avec cette sensation de « propreté/netteté » à chaque faits et gestes. Les couteaux étaient tellement smooth mdr
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After spending way to long sitting at a computer trying to decide what to watch, I decided to settle on one of the shortest films in my watchlist, Chime. Let me tell you though, Chime is not the kind of film you want to watch at 2:30 in the morning, as this is, in my opinion the most unsettling of Kiyoshi Kurosawa I have seen thus far. His cold, unpalatable formalism shines with his scenes of utilizing empty spaces and…
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Si los jumpscares son el McDonalds del terror, este señor es Ferran Adrià
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a bit unclear on what tf was going on but i like it
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Мемория Киёси Куросавы? Чувак просто флексит своим скиллом, ахуеное, атмосферное 45-минутное упражнение, напоминающее его Cure и Pulse Девушка, которая не хотела разделывать курицу потому что она какая то склизкая so real for that
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Rahatsız edici her saniye bir oşay yaşanacak gibi fakat yaşanmıyor bu rahatsız edici kamera açısı ve seslerin üstüne birde o olay yaşansa en azından bazı yerlerde okeydi
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This is Kurosawa’s masterpiece. It takes the idea of cure and brings it to a hole another level.
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Go for a walk mr. Kurosawa. Watch a sunset, eat cake, do whatever makes you happy idk.
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The kill scene. 10/10
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Probably the worst short film (can you considered it that?) I’ve seen in a while. Reddit recs have been letting me down lately. It seemed so promising 🙁
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amo la puesta en escena de kiyoshi kurosawa y la manera en que genera atmósferas tan inquietantes y oscuras, pero es tan tan críptica que se me puede quedar algo coja. aún así, ojalá se me hubiese ocurrido a mí antes!
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There’s something strange happening to everyone. I won’t tell you what it is. The end
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Vval 8 月 16, 2026
elle aurait mieux fait de couper le poulet
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3 Kiyoshi Kurosawa movies in a row, and this was the one I was most excited for but it was the weakest of the 3. Thought the idea was great, and the making of the film was technically sound, but the execution of the story left me wanting more
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Cchadpat 8 月 15, 2026
woke up from a nightmare after seeing this last night ☺️ kiyoshi kurosawa has the ability to hold a dreadful atmosphere throughout mundane life, telling us that something’s not quite right with the world we’re familiar with. ordinary, inanimate objects suddenly turn into things that feel unsettling and evil just to look at. terrifying to look at but even more terrifying when the camera takes our eyes away from them. in chime, paranoia and isolation creep their way into the…
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Kurosawa is a fucking genius. I don’t think I’ve ever felt this scared while watching something, it’s refreshing really. Kurosawa has this unique way of making horror in one of the most soothing settings. The cinematography is beyond good, and the soundtrack, God. It has the same eerie feeling of cure 1997, but doesn’t feel repetitive at all. In fact, chime does what cure 1997 couldn’t get me to feel, the sheer horror of killing without reason. Cure feels like…
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Every nights i fall asleep smiling thinking about 45 minutes asian movies.
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Upon fourth viewing I feel confident in saying that Chime (2024) is a five bagger. It’s easily findable to stream online free on a Russian streaming site with English subtitles, it’s less than 45 minutes long, and it feels incredibly current in execution and point of view. A challenging but rewarding watch. (ok.ru)
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“Can you hear it? That sound?” “Sound?” “The chime. It’s like a scream. But not human.”
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Wow, devo riguardarlo..
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Favourite oat
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That bridge shot had me jumping between “that is so beautiful” and “I’m so scared rn”
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very reminiscent of the haneke film the seventh continent. there’s something merciless about it all. how mundane it is to live in modernity, a life slipping through fingers, a job you hate, a fumbled interview, a trash bag full of beer cans. at once it all hits a crescendo, a great outburst, a lashing out, and then silence. guilt follows close by, an urge to run from it all. the film turns stress into something more stomach churning, an unsettling tone and a disgusting self centered apathy throughout. i very much enjoyed it.
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Un prof de cours de cuisine et l’inquiétante étrangeté du monde
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Eu literalmente terminei esse filme com um sentimento de ??? Mas depois pensando sobre o filme eu percebi que só não tinha o que entender, o filme é bem abstrato e segue uma linha que dá pra você interpretar de muitas formas, de uma forma ou até de nenhuma forma. A cinematográfia no geral é muito boa!
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So unsettling with its atmosphere from both audio and visual aspect. 90/100 Buat yang mau belajar bikin film horor, film ini bisa jadi salah satu referensi!
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This film is crazy, very experimental, and violent. The whole story just doesn’t make sense at all, and I love that it’s kinda like a sequel to Cure.
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Aqui é arte.
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Very good Mr matsouka wears the freshest clothes, cooks at the chillest restaurants, listens to the coolest chimes and hangs out with the rawest chicks
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Lo stile minimalista di Kiyoshi é perfetto per narrare questo tipo di film. Ampissimi silenzi e inquadrature di pura tensione accompagnanano l’isteria di massa che coglie la società e la scuote nel profondo, provocando alienazione e disorientamento. Paura e chaos: un campanellio é ciò che basta per mandare la fragile mente umana nella follia di un incubo ad occhi aperti, perseguitati da quel tintinnio e impossibilitati a trovare pace.
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Cryptic doesn’t even begin to describe it
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Post-Covid era condensed in 45 minutes
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Gosh dang it, I can’t interpret any of this guys’ work, but it’s all so quietly powerful and disturbing.
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بدا الفلم و على طول قلت لنفسي هذا مرة يشبه كيور… سرعان ما استوعبت انه المخرج كيوشي كورساوا فعلا نفس طريقة تسلل الرعب للحياة اليومية بشكل انسيابي و برضو مو مهتم يخليك تفهم اذا كانت ظاهرة خارقة او انهيار نفسي. الشخصيات بتفقد امسانيتها شوي شوي بلا ما يحسوا بشكل بارد، في كثير باراليلز مع كيور فعلا. مثال ممتاز على قدرة كورساوا بيعمل رعب حقيقي من أبسط الاشياء و خصوصا من الفراغ و الناس العاديين لما يكون في شي مكسور جواهم
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There’s absolutely no shot this family of 3 are drinking 3+ bags worth of canned drinks a day. Their blood sugar levels must be fucking critical
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there are no jump scares here. only edge scares. and edge scares are way more effective than jump scares.
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esta es la 3era cosa que veo de kurosawa y en todas me he cagado de miedo solo con la atmosfera agobiante que tienen sus films, no necesita mostrar nada mas pd: igual me gustaria entender un poco mas sus peliculas 🙂
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Banalitäten machen uns verrückt
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SShame Ghoul 8 月 13, 2026
I wouldn’t have done that
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Holy shit, I’m now realizing that this is a masterpiece. The story follows Matsuoka, a seemingly normal man who lives a mundane life as a cooking instructor. Initially, he seems absolutely ordinary. However, after his student Tashiro commits suicide in front of him and his class, things start to go downhill. To start off, he goes about his day normally, and even tells his wife about his job interview rather than the kid who literally just stabbed himself at his…
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I’ve been thinking for a day about this movie’s themes and coming up sort of empty-handed. Or at least I’m not really sure. Is it an allegory for male frustration and the way men divine their worth from their job first and domestic life second? Or is it simply a movie about the death spiral into madness? My next door neighbor has had a low battery fire alarm chirp going off for over a week and I can hear it…
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Everything must go.
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La vita quotidiana come involucro esasperante e fragilissimo. Il suono come simbolo di ciò che si insinua senza farsi vedere, facendo perdere la testa. Apatia totale, distanza completa. Romanticizzazione di un personaggio, che quando non riceve riscontro si traduce in violenza. Il controllo mentale come metafora di quell’insinuazione del potere, che rende ridicolo parlare di queste dinamiche così da squalificare ogni analisi, così che si autoconservi meglio. Dentro di te sei messo in minoranza dal personaggio imposto, ma l’ideologia della…
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Originally released as an NFT that owners were encouraged to rent out at prices of their own choosing, Chime is a strange beast. The fact that it’s also a 45-minute psychological thriller puts it in a narrative no-man’s-land between “short” and “feature.” Strange again. On its surface, this is a film that expresses the frustrations of a middle age artist (or chef, in this case) who has found himself teaching and living an ordinary suburban life instead of creating and…
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So much dread and horror in just 45 minutes. Not sure I can explain why everything that happened happened but I love it. So many cool shots and the use of sound is fantastic again, similar to Cure. Very disturbing, I have to watch more Kiyoshi Kurosawa films.
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A cooking class said to help calm emotional turmoil such as anger. Instructor Matsuoka teaches cooking there. In the classroom, the light from the subway speeding past outside the window reflects off the stainless steel countertops and cooking utensils, scattering and then vanishing. One of the trainees there complains of pain, claiming to hear chime bells right by their ears, and continues to exhibit incomprehensible behavior. The abnormal behavior of the family gathered for dinner, the bewildered attitude of the…
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Loved it, had no idea where it was going or what it meant, but sometimes we don’t need to. Thrilling
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa turns the mundane into something deeply unsettling in Chime. What starts as an ordinary domestic story gradually becomes an increasingly disturbing descent into paranoia, alienation, and inexplicable horror. Kurosawa’s restrained direction makes the film especially effective, instead of relying on conventional scares, he lets the unease slowly seep into every scene, making even seemingly harmless moments feel wrong. The sparse atmosphere and unsettling sound design create a constant sense of dread, while the film’s ambiguity leaves you questioning…
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Quitando la movida de que la gracia de la peli es que se distribuyó como un nft (o algo así la vdd es que me da un poco igual) me ha encantado. Bastante en la línea de Cure, aunque algo peor. El runtime de 45 min es interesante pero no sé si me acaba de convencer, aunque es cierto que la premisa no da para mucho más. Cinematografía genial, al servicio de los temas, planos muy tensos y una paleta de colores acertadísima.
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Kiyoshi plays again with the light and the darkness of human beings but this time is not with the shadow and the luminescence for instance in his masterpiece Cure (vo: Kyura) but with the sound of a “carillon” or a “chime” wich is the title of this short film. he also incrustes a few ghosty elements, now by Pulse (vo: Kairo) who is one of the bests Kiyoshi’s works i ♡ u sm Kiyoshi kiyoshi ranking
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i just shit my pants
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alright buddy
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J’ai rien compris mais c’était cool !
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I dont get it… but the eerie feeling kept me going
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recycle dem damn cans, will ya?🥫
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what did those poor cans do to you girl??
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Not sure about the reasoning behind anything and and i dont comprehend all the images insaw but its a stark, gorgeously photographed and paced depiction of degredation and decay. Sometimes things fall apart uncontrollably without explanation. Sometimes its just you, sometimes its everyone and everywhere, sometimes its in between and you don’t know how it started or whats going on and where it ends. Torment without explanation, cause, or end.
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Societal ennui turned into murderous intent
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this feels less like a thriller and more like a study of how fucked up the human brain can get under stress and trauma. most of the movie is in the characters expressions, body language, and the weird shit they say and do. the main character is obviously narcissistic as hell, barely reacts to the kid killing himself, kills a girl without much thought, and only starts breaking down when the consequences finally catch up to him. his wife is…
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Cure ve Pulse atmosferini almış 45 dakikaya sığdırmaya çalışmış ve ortaya hiç bir şey açıklanmayan bişi çıkmış. Galiba psikolojik çöküş
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Me gusta cuando los directores repiten patrones que pasan desapercibidos en sus historias, de una forma tan minuciosa y delicada, que uno como espectador no se da cuenta. Siempre existirá algo que puede desencadenar una histeria mental, y Chime es el ejemplo de que hasta un leve sonido te puede hacer perder la cordura de tú mente. Los cuchillos son para cortar comida o para hacer que un cuerpo humano deje de respirar? Hay que terapiarse gente, es mi gran reflexión después de ver chime, y me siento muy feliz de estar haciéndolo :,)
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00kaj0 8 月 11, 2026
pointless and 100% empty. crazy he dropped cloud the same year and went on to drop the samurai and the prisoner. respect the work ethic
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Pretty cool flick from Kurosawa here. A movie not asking why people kill & rather showing a reason why people kill. watched this on the way to a friends place to watch Climax, & it was something interesting enough to keep me hooked for the runtime. I do think it should’ve been a good 20 minutes longer though. 6/10
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This project has several dimensions to analyze. The screenplay and editing are filled with everyday yet profound metaphors. In just 45 minutes, there’s enough development for the viewer to already not want it to end. I think this is both a strength and a weakness of the project. The sound design is something worth highlighting in this film. It’s brilliant.
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Like all of Kiyoshi’s films an absolute masterpiece in atmosphere This is also arguably his scariest Ive seen since Pulse, although a very different type of scary, a very stripped down humane type of scary with a mix of existential crisis
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Choose your favorite horror theme, it doesn’t really matter anyway, the real horror is the everyday dread.
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estas coisas pegam-se
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me when everyday sounds start getting louder and my family members turn into some vaguely familiar people I happen to come home to… oh and I’m lowkey a human wannabe at interviews
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tendi nada mas direção eh zica
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Atmospheric horror film that envelops with a sustained dread and some scenes of pure demonic terror. It’s short but engrossing, tight, well acted and written. Perhaps more questions remain at the end than necessary (it could have easily been feature length) but it’s masterful in its way.
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So refined, distilled, like a piece of meat with all the fat cut off. It almost feels sterile whether its the somewhat minial sets or the almost ASMR like sound design it makes me so uneasy. The way the shots feel so regular and everyday with a lack of tension until it explodes, but only for a second as it returns to a calmness as if nothing happened at all. Perfectly captures an almost lovecraftian style of denpa with there…
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Ppipe dream 8 月 10, 2026
girl what the fuck
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Japanese “Cremator” attempt yet to be finished
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moral da história: pessoal so sabe usar uma faca pra matar gente
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This shit gets straight to the point, no side stories just a deeply unsettling completely unknowable curse that spreads to a few people through out the film, making it 45 minutes long was an interesting decision that I think worked out really well
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Ttranart 8 月 10, 2026
was it something alien? was it psychological or supernatural? I have no clue. I just know that each frame felt so cozy to me mmmmmmmm ✨
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First Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and it’s pretty good! I really think the standout about this little short film is how Kurosawa makes sound such a pivotal and very in your face feature that really becomes one of constant sources of dread and horror. Brilliant shit
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to me the spookiest aspect of chime is how we are mostly held at a distance from the protagonist’s dealings with the titular noise. we see its effects on him but are surprised at the proceedings because we have no glimpse into the character’s mind. it’s like watching a regular movie through security cam footage i’m just gonna throw this out there but the film felt vibe-wise like the cinematic representation of a joy division song. it made me feel the same way. i can’t elaborate
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「 Did you know? Half of my brain… it’s been replaced. There’s a machine in my head. It responds to the chime. 」
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Watched this and immediately started distrusting household noises. There is no clean line between perception and reality here.
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Loved the minimalistic and aestheticized approach to horror, but can’t say the same for the plot if there even was any.
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É bom, ele é conceitual tipo cure, mas acho que dá ara entender melhor o ué acontece nesse
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After watching this movie i understood what scares me the most. Writers really did a great work by not revealing anything. In horror films most of the time the confusion we experience and our own interpretation of horror behind the surface visuals are the most scariest things. Japanese horror films hit different.
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Couldn’t fully get on board with some of the character motivations, but still this has to be one of the finest depiction of atmospheric horror that I’ve seen in recent times. Such incredible usage of sound and camera movements within a span of 45 mins.
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الفكرة جيدة والأجواء متوترة وأتفهّم المدرسة اليابانية في أفلام الرعب النفسي. لكن تصنيف هذا الفيلم كأفضل أفلام الرعب النفسي أنا لا أتوافق مع هذا التصريح. مثل ما قلت الفيلم جيد لكن هناك الكثير من الفراغات التي لا تخدم تسلسل الأحداث.
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“Something inside me is telling me what to do… and I can’t stop it.” I really wasn’t planning on writing much about this movie, until I actually watched it. I honestly think Kiyoshi Kurosawa is one of the most talented directors out there when it comes to traumatizing an audience. He’s the absolute master of psychological horror; there’s truly no one quite like him. I think over time, the industry has realized that in horror, the less we know about…
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lan hiçbir şey anlamadım aq
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I like the way kiyoshi kurosawa composes his movies, especially how he uses sound, and this one has its moments; but am I naive to say that it felt a little bland, even if it was only 45 minutes?
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If this wasn’t highly inaccesible and partially created to promote NFTs, i’d definitely appreciate it a little more. That’s not to say i didn’t love the film, because i did, but it could NOT have had a worse release strategy. Chime is a movie driven by sound design, prioritising the audible experience to create a consistently disturbed atmosphere. One where modern noise drowns out the anguish of wage earners, students, and the simple hobbyist. I feel the point of the…
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Welp, KK’s done it again with his surprisingly unique and beautiful locations that fit so perfectly — the kind that always leave my husband and me wondering how the hell they even found these places — and that nagging sense of dread that makes his movies so relentlessly fuckin bleak. Had to sit with it for awhile and work through the possibilities, more so than the others. Was it a case of an unreliable narrator? Was it actually *him*? Whew. A hard film to find as it had been released with some sort of NFT involvement, but worthwhile to try and do so.
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I enjoyed the wailing screams and the squishy sounds and every bit of ASMR on this. It goes well with the sound-based premise. But the knives, man… The goofy lunatic stabbing himself in the neck after smiling eerily was a disappointing deja-vu. For something so (implicitly?) keen on exposing the supposed coldness and absurdity of modern life, I think it could’ve paid a more truthful homage to the all lunatics who self-harm every day in much less polished ways. On…
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أي حد يتنفس يقوم قاتله ( عايزة اعمل زيه عمتا )
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拍个长片吧！！！高频提琴声太吓人了…再一次以空间、光影、运镜挪移、噪声创造出机械世界
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Shizofrenia gadaedo
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This movie will be rated depending on the viewers way of digesting the given story. Chime takes a seemingly normal person and twists them in a disturbing way with only just one act. The chime could represent a humans hunger for violence, or maybe just a descent into craziness. But it is left ambiguous, such as most of K. Kurosawa’s work
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i think i need to reconsider enrolling in a cooking class
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Une cuisine propre et ordonnée accueillant un cours de cuisine française : voilà sur quoi s’ouvre Chime, une scène banale d’apprentissage. Scène qui va très vite dérailler quand un garçon entend un carillon le poussant à la folie. Petit à petit, c’est toute la réalité du monde qui tremble : ce que nous voyons existe-t-il ? Le personnage principal est-il aussi sain qu’il en a (apriori) l’air ? Toutes ces questions sont traitées par le son : évidemment, le carillon…
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黑泽清就像巫师，具有掌控环境中元素和能量的能力。 (2 有用)
- Synopsis
- A chef's life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.
- Director
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Writer
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Studio
- Roadstead, Sunborn, C&I entertainment, Nikkatsu Corporation
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Year
- 2024
- Runtime
- 45 mins
- Germany19 Feb 2024
- USA10 Sep 2024
- Indonesia05 Dec 2024
- Japan02 Aug 2024
- France28 May 2025
- South Korea04 Mar 2026
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