爱情魔咒

　　Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter.
　　Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...

　　故事发生在京都太秦，演员香美山（福本清三 饰）演了一辈子剑戟片，是专职饰演被杀死角色的“被杀役”，他一辈子勤勤恳恳兢兢业业，靠着努力和汗水，获得了同行和后辈们的尊重与信赖。然而香美山明白，剑戟片的没落之势早已经不可抵挡，喜爱和欣赏它的人越来越少，心中因此怀着满满的孤寂。
　　某日，一位名叫伊贺五月（山本千寻 饰）的年轻女演员找到了香美山，希望他能够成为她的武术指导，被五月的热情和真诚打动，香美山答应了她的请求，就这样，两人成为了师徒。在香美山巧妙的调教之下，五月的演技突飞猛进，很快得到了观众的喜爱，职业前景一片光明。而落寞的香美山，则决定返回家乡，了此残生。