# Charisma (1999)

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**Original title**: *カリスマ*
**Runtime**: 104 min
**Genres**: Mystery, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
**Written by**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
**Starring**: Koji Yakusho, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Ren Osugi, Yoriko Doguchi, Yutaka Matsushige, Akira Otaka

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Summer. A mountain road blocked by tape. The detective’s radio crackles one name.

A missing politician held by a man who names trees the way others name sins. The detective hesitates, then vanishes toward a cedar so twisted it looks like a signature scrawled in bark.

Kurosawa folds a thriller into a half-remembered dream.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, dread, slow-burn

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