Fantasmas no cinema de Kiyoshi Kurosawa: desaparecer, reaparecer e presentificar

Abstract

In the research “Ghosts in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cinema: disappear, reappear and presentify” we seek to investigate how the apparitions of the "palpable ghosts" produced in this cinematography are articulated. How do these images reposition us as spectators facing death? For a methodological approach, we used a filmic analysis to investigate how ghosts appear in five feature films directed and scripted by Kurosawa, in a study of the formal and narrative relationships that occur in the mise en scène. Our corpus of analysis is constituted by: Séance (Kôrei, 2000), Pulse (Kairo, 2001), Loft (Rofuto, 2005), Retribution (Sakebi, 2006) and Journey to the Shore (Kishibe no Tabi, 2015). Kurosawa believes in the construction of the world through fiction: what is framed on the screen starts to have a materiality, to exist. And if the ghost is on the screen, it also exists. The ghostly apparition modes that emerge from this filmography can contribute to new relationships with the horror genre, the images and the cinema. KEYWORDS Kiyoshi Kurosawa; ghosts; japanese cinema; horror.