Foreboding (film)
{{short description|2017 film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Foreboding
| image = Foreboding poster.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director = Kiyoshi Kurosawa
| producer =
| writer = {{plainlist|
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Hiroshi Takahashi
}}
| based_on = {{Based on|Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha|Tomohiro Maekawa}}
| starring = {{plainlist|
}}
| music = Yusuke Hayashi
| cinematography = Akiko Ashizawa
| editing = Koichi Takahashi
| studio = {{plainlist|
}}
| distributor = Pony Canyon
| released = {{film date|df=yes|2017|11|11|Japan}}
| runtime = 140 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
}}
{{Nihongo|Foreboding|予兆 散歩する侵略者|Yochō: Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha}} is a 2017 Japanese science fiction film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It stars Kaho, Shōta Sometani, and Masahiro Higashide. It is a spin-off from his 2017 film Before We Vanish.{{cite web|url=https://eiga.com/news/20171006/8/|title=「散歩する侵略者」スピンオフ「予兆」、ファンの声を受けて劇場公開決定！|website=映画.com|date=6 October 2017|accessdate=5 October 2019}} It was originally produced as a five-part television series on WOWOW, and was re-edited for theatrical release in Japan on 11 November 2017.{{cite web|title=『予兆 散歩する侵略者 劇場版』、第68回ベルリン映画祭の"パノラマ部門"に正式出品決定！|url=http://cinema.pia.co.jp/news/174275/73279/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203005837/http://cinema.pia.co.jp/news/174275/73279/|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 February 2018|website=ぴあ映画生活|date=18 December 2017|accessdate=2 February 2018}} It was selected to screen in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/foreboding-director-kiyoshi-kurosawa-being-a-horror-master-who-doesn-t-like-gore-1085863|title='Foreboding' Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa on Being a Horror Master Who Doesn't Like Gore|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Gavin J.|last=Blair|date=17 February 2018|accessdate=5 October 2019}}
Plot
A clinical engineer, Tatsuo (Shōta Sometani), encounters a new doctor, Makabe (Masahiro Higashide), at the hospital. Makabe is an alien who came to invade Earth. Tatsuo is forced to be a guide to help Makabe collect human concepts. Etsuko (Kaho), who is Tatsuo's wife, notices that she is immune to the alien's influence. She tries to save her husband.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Kaho as Etsuko Yamagiwa
- Shōta Sometani as Tatsuo Yamagiwa
- Masahiro Higashide as Shirō Makabe
- Eriko Nakamura as Yoko Saiki
- Yukino Kishii as Miyuki Asakawa
- Junpei Yasui as Komori
- Kei Ishibashi as Kazuyo Kawauchi
- Mutsuo Yoshioka as Nogami
- Hirota Otsuka as Police officer
- Tetsuya Chiba as Tamotsu Asakawa
- Taro Suwa as Taoka
- Makiko Watanabe as Kasuya's wife
- Makoto Nakamura as Kasuya
- Ren Osugi as Nishizaki
}}
Release
The film was released in Japan on 11 November 2017.{{cite web|url=https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/256378|title=もし世界が終わるなら？「予兆 散歩する侵略者」黒沢清や夏帆が想像巡らす|website=映画ナタリー|date=11 November 2017|accessdate=11 October 2019}} It screened in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival on 21 February 2018.{{cite web|url=https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/270758|title=黒沢清「予兆 散歩する侵略者」がベルリン映画祭で上映、「ベルリンも懐が深い」|website=映画ナタリー|date=23 February 2018|accessdate=11 October 2019}}
Reception
Jessica Kiang of Variety commented that "Foreboding plays like an unwieldy summary of Kurosawa's gloomy thematic preoccupations and his worst formal tendencies: It's overlong and lacking focus, and the underwater pacing and dissociative, somnolent acting style make it hard to invest in the human characters even before they've been partially zombified."{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/foreboding-review-1202687001/|title=Berlin Film Review: 'Foreboding'|website=Variety|first=Jessica|last=Kiang|date=27 February 2018|accessdate=5 October 2019}} Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "This Berlin Panorama Special entry seems like an unnecessary variation on the first film, sharing most of its pros and cons, including some eerie moments, slow storytelling and excess length, but lacking its more spectacular action sequences."{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/foreboding-1087199|title='Foreboding' ('Yocho'): Film Review {{!}} Berlin 2018|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Deborah|last=Young|date=21 February 2018|accessdate=5 October 2019}} Contrastingly, Mark Schilling of The Japan Times stated that "Instead of recycling the earlier film, Yocho is quite different in story and tone ... darker and scarier from beginning to end."{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/11/15/films/film-reviews/yocho-foreboding-doctor-hes-terrifying/|title='Yocho "Foreboding"': The doctor is in ... and he's terrifying|first=Mark|last=Schilling|date=15 November 2017|website=The Japan Times|accessdate=6 October 2019}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://yocho-movie.jp}} {{in lang|ja}}{{Dead link|date=November 2024}}
- {{IMDb title|7931422|Foreboding}}
{{Kiyoshi Kurosawa}}
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Category:2017 science fiction films
Category:Japanese science fiction films
Category:2010s Japanese-language films