Sion Sono takes another trip towards the preposterous, this time managing to mix tokusatsu, kaiju, and family film elements while mocking a vast plethora of notions, including the Olympic Games, history, the music industry, bullying, pop culture, and even Santa Claus.
Love and Peace is screening as part of Five Flavours Asian New Year’s Eve Online
Ryoichi is the definition of the loser. When he was young, he dreamt of becoming a punk rock star but instead ended up being a timid white-collar employee of a musical parts company. Furthermore, everybody seems to constantly mock him and that includes not just his co-workers and boss, but actually everybody. From the passengers of the train he takes to work every day, who seem to stare at him perpetually, to talk-show producers on TV, in a distinct surrealistic notion, typical of Sono’s style. Ryoichi has feelings for a co-worker, Yuko Terajima,...
Love and Peace is screening as part of Five Flavours Asian New Year’s Eve Online
Ryoichi is the definition of the loser. When he was young, he dreamt of becoming a punk rock star but instead ended up being a timid white-collar employee of a musical parts company. Furthermore, everybody seems to constantly mock him and that includes not just his co-workers and boss, but actually everybody. From the passengers of the train he takes to work every day, who seem to stare at him perpetually, to talk-show producers on TV, in a distinct surrealistic notion, typical of Sono’s style. Ryoichi has feelings for a co-worker, Yuko Terajima,...
- 12/24/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Don’t Breathe and Blood Father to close genre fest; world premiere of the late Pascal Chaumeil’s last film; Brandon Cronenberg project in works-in-progress strand; genre Vr panel set.
The Fantasia International Film Festival’s (July 14 - August 3) 20th edition will close with Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe and Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, starring Mel Gibson.
In Don’t Breathe, three friends break into the house of a wealthy blind man with unexpected consequences.
The film is produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, along with Alvarez. Sony Pictures will release in North America in late August, 2016.
Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father will make its North American premiere as part of the festival’s closing night events and as the official closing film of the Action! Section.
The thriller, which first premiered at Cannes in May, stars Mel Gibson as an ex-con who reunites with his estranged 16-year old daughter to protect her from...
The Fantasia International Film Festival’s (July 14 - August 3) 20th edition will close with Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe and Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, starring Mel Gibson.
In Don’t Breathe, three friends break into the house of a wealthy blind man with unexpected consequences.
The film is produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, along with Alvarez. Sony Pictures will release in North America in late August, 2016.
Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father will make its North American premiere as part of the festival’s closing night events and as the official closing film of the Action! Section.
The thriller, which first premiered at Cannes in May, stars Mel Gibson as an ex-con who reunites with his estranged 16-year old daughter to protect her from...
- 7/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
Sion Sono's Love and PeaceSTORY72%DIRECTION75%ACTING70%VISUALS80%POSITIVESGreat story in the distinct Sono styleActing matching the general aesthetics to the fullestGreat, retro visualsNegativesA small time frame that the film seems a bit lagging2016-06-1474%Overall ScoreReader Rating: (0 Votes)0%
Sion Sono takes another trip towards the preposterous, this time managing to mix tokusatsu, kaiju, and family film elements while mocking a vast plethora of notions, including the Olympic Games, history, the music industry, bullying, pop culture, and even Santa Claus.
Ryoichi is the definition of loser. When he was young, he dreamt of becoming a punk rock star but instead ended up being a timid white-collar employee of a musical parts company. Furthermore, everybody seems to constantly mock him and that includes not just his co-workers and boss, but actually everybody. From the passengers of the train he takes to work every day, who seem to stare at him perpetually,...
Sion Sono takes another trip towards the preposterous, this time managing to mix tokusatsu, kaiju, and family film elements while mocking a vast plethora of notions, including the Olympic Games, history, the music industry, bullying, pop culture, and even Santa Claus.
Ryoichi is the definition of loser. When he was young, he dreamt of becoming a punk rock star but instead ended up being a timid white-collar employee of a musical parts company. Furthermore, everybody seems to constantly mock him and that includes not just his co-workers and boss, but actually everybody. From the passengers of the train he takes to work every day, who seem to stare at him perpetually,...
- 6/14/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The 27th Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) has announced its Special Screenings line-up of high-profile films from Japan and abroad.
Aside from previously announced opening and closing films - Big Hero 6 and Parasyte - world premieres in Special Screenings include Mamoru Oshii’s Japan-Canada coproduction Garm Wars The Last Druid, a “hybrid animation fusing pioneer CG and live-action technologies”.
Also, Isshin Inudo’s romance Miracle: Devil Claus’ Love And Magic, Sebastian Masuda’s The Nutcracker 3D and Kiyotaka Taguchi’s The Next Generation - Patlabor - Episode 10, a live action version of Mobile Police Patlabor with special footage to screen with commentary from general director Oshii.
The line-up will also include a look at footage from upcoming Tim Burton feature Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. It opens in the Us on Dec 25.
The festival will run Oct 23-31.
Special Screenings
Title/country/director, Wp - World Premiere
Big Hero 6 (Us) Don Hall, [link...
Aside from previously announced opening and closing films - Big Hero 6 and Parasyte - world premieres in Special Screenings include Mamoru Oshii’s Japan-Canada coproduction Garm Wars The Last Druid, a “hybrid animation fusing pioneer CG and live-action technologies”.
Also, Isshin Inudo’s romance Miracle: Devil Claus’ Love And Magic, Sebastian Masuda’s The Nutcracker 3D and Kiyotaka Taguchi’s The Next Generation - Patlabor - Episode 10, a live action version of Mobile Police Patlabor with special footage to screen with commentary from general director Oshii.
The line-up will also include a look at footage from upcoming Tim Burton feature Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. It opens in the Us on Dec 25.
The festival will run Oct 23-31.
Special Screenings
Title/country/director, Wp - World Premiere
Big Hero 6 (Us) Don Hall, [link...
- 9/19/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Mamoru Oshii's live-action Patlabor anthology series has revealed its list of directors. The anthology series consists of 12 episodes that will be released in Japanese theater in seven parts. Each of the 12 episodes are said to be 48 minutes long. It's currently unknown how many episodes each part will contain. Takanori Tsujimoto (Bushido Man) will direct episodes two, four and eight. Kiyotaka Taguchi (Neo Ultra Q) will direct nine and ten. Hiroaki Yuasa (Iron Girl, Monster Killer) will direct three, five and eleven. Oshii will handle directing duties for episodes one and six. Here's a full breakdown of the release schedule for the live-action episodes for Patlabor: Part 1: April 5, 2014 Part 2: May 31, 2014 Part 3: July 12, 2014 Part 4: August 30, 2014 Part 5: October 18, 2014 Part 6: November 29, 2014 Part 7: January 1, 2015 Once the anthology series is...
- 1/15/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
The official website for Shinji Higuchi‘s upcoming kaiju TV drama MM9 (short for Monster Magnitude 9) has been updated with a 30-second TV spot. Unfortunately, there are no actual monsters to be seen, but you gotta love Anna Ishibashi‘s delayed thumbs up at the end.
Based on a story by sci-fi writer Hiroshi Yamamoto, the show centers around a special “living creatures” division of the Japan Meteorological Agency which predicts the appearance of monsters. When an attack does occur, a team of monster specialists called “Kitokutai” is sent to the front lines, even if the Japan Self-Defense Force is unavailable. As ordinary public servants, these unsung heroes have no weapons, and must rely only their skills, knowledge, and experience to minimize the damage caused by monsters.
Ishibashi (17) and Machiko Ono (28) are the show’s two main stars. Ishibashi plays Sakura Fujisawa, a rookie member of the team, and Ono plays Mikazuki,...
Based on a story by sci-fi writer Hiroshi Yamamoto, the show centers around a special “living creatures” division of the Japan Meteorological Agency which predicts the appearance of monsters. When an attack does occur, a team of monster specialists called “Kitokutai” is sent to the front lines, even if the Japan Self-Defense Force is unavailable. As ordinary public servants, these unsung heroes have no weapons, and must rely only their skills, knowledge, and experience to minimize the damage caused by monsters.
Ishibashi (17) and Machiko Ono (28) are the show’s two main stars. Ishibashi plays Sakura Fujisawa, a rookie member of the team, and Ono plays Mikazuki,...
- 7/2/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Shinji Higuchi (44), known as the “Heisei special effects king” for his work on the Heisei era Gamera trilogy, is supervising the production of his first TV drama. The show is called MM9 (Monster Magnitude 9) and is set in an alternate version of modern-day Japan in which monster attacks are the norm and are treated as another form of natural disaster. The show is based on a story by sci-fi writer Hiroshi Yamamoto which was originally serialized in Tokyo Sogensha’s “Mysteries!” from 2005-2006 and published as a book in 2007.
The project was first hinted at through an April Fools joke which presented it as a “sci-fi epic” called XX9. Higuchi released a photo of the cast dressed up in traditional sci-fi outfits and wielding futuristic rifles.
The show centers around a special “living creatures” division of the Japan Meteorological Agency which predicts the appearance of monsters. When an attack does occur,...
The project was first hinted at through an April Fools joke which presented it as a “sci-fi epic” called XX9. Higuchi released a photo of the cast dressed up in traditional sci-fi outfits and wielding futuristic rifles.
The show centers around a special “living creatures” division of the Japan Meteorological Agency which predicts the appearance of monsters. When an attack does occur,...
- 5/26/2010
- Nippon Cinema
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