Would you like to meet a ghost? How about a potentially apocalyptic tree? In the middle chapter of our Kurosawathon, Noah and Eliza delve deeper into the director’s chilling, idiosyncratic visions of existential terror.

1999’s CHARISMA is a trippy ecological thought experiment featuring Kurosawa’s muse Koji Yakusho again, whereas 2001’s PULSE might just be one of the scariest films ever made, getting in early on the psychic trauma of going on computer. Despite his love of emotionally detached wide shots and ambiguous plot moments, Kiyoshi is a filmmaker with a lot to say - the MSP team struggles to articulate just how and why his millennium-era movies feel as powerful as they do, refracting a disconnected world back through the blackest corners of a haunted frame.