Release: The Crow: Yomi

 

The Crow: Yomi

Genre: Supernatural/Thriller/Romance

Director: Takashi Miike

Writer: Jack Brown

Based on the comic created by James O'Barr

Cast: Mike Faist, Minami Hamabe, Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Rie Miyazawa, Masaki Okada, Tak Sakaguchi, Emma Appleton

Budget: $37,000,000

Domestic Box Office: $40,109,504

Foreign Box Office: $63,900,197

Total Profit: $17,444,595

Reaction: Chalk up another success at the box office for Jack Brown - who now has yet to have a flop in his first dozen films.

"This might be the Crow sequel we've waited decades for. Takashi Miike and Jack Brown fuse supernatural vengeance with Japanese folklore, and it rips. Mike Faist is vulnerable and weirdly fierce, and Minami Hamabe’s Haruko is haunting even in stillness. It’s brutal, yeah - like, really brutal - but it means something. And that soundtrack? Straight-up ethereal doom. This is what The Crow should be: romance, ruin, resurrection." - Bruce Filmore, Hawkins Post

"Director Takashi Miike’s signature visceral style meets a surprisingly tender heart, making for a uniquely dark, stylish, and emotionally resonant thriller that honors its gothic roots while carving out its own distinct, blood-soaked path."- Seth Black, Seattle Times

"The Crow: Yomi is a stylistic fever dream that mistakes prolonged brooding for profundity. Takashi Miike, always an uneven auteur, drenches the screen in grief and gore, occasionally striking a poetic nerve but often wallowing in excess. While the film flirts with arthouse dignity—its cherry blossoms and whispered sutras nod toward something more elevated - Yomi devolves into a sledgehammer opera of nihilism. There’s texture, yes, but little restraint." - Harold Fenwick, The Atlantic Review of Cinema

Rated R for brutal violence including sexual assault, disturbing images, and language