Madhukar’s review published on Letterboxd:
Kiyoshi Kurosawa has this uncanny ability of slowly building a horrifying narrative through his meticulous framing, score, and deliberately paced conversation that slowly unravel the darkness hidden underneath. It is never fully apparent but the dread slowly creeps on you and catches you completely unaware. It's a feeling you can't shake off for a long long time. Cure and Pulse still haunts me to this day and Retribution has the pacing and the oppressive and almost apocalyptic urban setting with full of broken people weighed down by life. Even the romance in the movie is framed in such sadness that by the time the movie ends you actually feel the weight of the world around you and it is honestly quite an overwhelming feeling of sadness and depression. Not something you can recover easily from.