An Early Work by the "Other" Kurosawa
Nothing comes close to modern-day security! I had just awakened from a dream in which the drone's POV had taken over my own and within the cheap eye-display the horse could be spotted through the ground-level night-vision sludge bolting inexorably through freeway morass, a gunshot wound through its left front scapula doing nothing to hinder the wild forward thrash of either horse nor just-married patrolman, all the time unable, maybe unwilling, to resist being yanked in two by the attached medium-lay nylon just to make it stop and extinguish his qualms about this new gig! It was like the old gig, minus the hovering assistant (moi, begoggled) who would finally step in and deliver the shoulder-propelled rocket straight into the courser's fucking head. Lying beneath my sheets I took in the whistle of the birds and the yelp of a child, pulled hard from my phone, and was recast as night-shift down the Gormenghast reprintery. Tugged his fatigued balls rightward. Chomped on half a pumpkin muffin — once again it was Welcome to the Sec-Psi Trade.
The truth of the matter is that a few weeks back I'd wanted to watch once or twice more Kiyoshi Kurosawa's early straight-to-video feature (an easy if not usually initial in the first KK discoveries even twenty years ago) Jigoku no keibiin [The Security Guard from Hell, 1992 — aka "The Guard from Underground" in its western release]. It's out on a new Blu-ray from Third Window Films, who did a fine job in bringing this early example of J-horror back to life. Yet there were difficulties on my second attempt at watching involving some pan-regional map and unselectable colored territories. Trashy old DVD-R I used to have in the archives looked during playback like eel-skin.
In any form The Security Guard from Hell tells the story from a skeptical female coworker's point-of-view of a malevolent demon-man, seven-three in uniform, hired to take on guard duty in the dim flickering basement corridors of an outstanding business concern.
"And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall..." •
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Other writing on Kiyoshi Kurosawa at Cinemasparagus:
Jigoku no keibiin [The Security Guard from Hell, 1992]
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