Charisma (Home Re-Release) | The Deight Night Review
Charisma (1999, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Eureka Entertainment) After failing to resolve a hostage situation, resulting in the death of both the hostage - a high profile politician - and his captor, overworked police detective Goro Yobuike (Koji Yakusho) is forced to leave his job and take some annual leave to give him a long overdue break. On his compulsory holiday, he stumbles into a dying forest that has within it a disused sanitorium and a singular tree that's protected by an eccentric young man called Naoto Kiriyama (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi). The tree is called Charisma and, as Yobuike finds out, there are many sides who all have different intentions with the tree and Yobuike must decide which side to take in the fight for Charisma's fate. Kiyoshi Kurosawa has a knack for making films that have a lot more going on under the surface. Charisma is absolutely no exception, as soon as the mystery behind Charisma the tree and the reasons why so many are fighting over it start to unravel, the...
