The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Yoshii resigns from his stable job to make big money as a reseller. His schemes appear to be going from strength to strength until unsettling incidents begin occurring consecutively around him. A negative spiral of animosity eventually gives rise to a crazed mob of unknown number. Their target is Yoshii, whose oblivious existence is rapidly torn apart...
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Born in 1955 in Kobe, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a former professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his contributions to psychological and Japanese horror. He studied at Rikkyo University in Tokyo under the guidance of prominent film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, where he began making 8mm films. Kurosawa began directing commercially in the 1980s, working on pink films and low-budget V-Cinema (direct-to-video) productions such as formula yakuza films. In 1983, he released his first feature film Kandagawa Pervert Wars, and became popular after The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (1985) and The Guard from Underground (1992). He first achieved international acclaim with his 1997 crime thriller film Cure; his most celebrated work alongside Pulse (2001), for which he won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
