Hong Kong DVD distributor CN Entertainment will be releasing Shimako Sato‘s K-20: Legend of the Mask (K-20: Kaijin Niju Menso Den, 2008) on English-subtitled DVD next week. I wouldn’t expect much in the way of features considering CN releases are usually barebones, but DVD-9 is a very good sign picture quality-wise; they usually squash everything onto a DVD-5. Fans in North America may want to hold off until Viz Pictures comes out with their release of the film in the very near future.

Plot: In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.

Region 3, NTSC, DVD-9. Japanese DTS and Chinese-dubbed Dolby 5.1 audio tracks with selectable Chinese and English subtitles.

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The first teaser is out for Atsushi Muroga‘s Wangan Midnight: The Movie, a theatrical adaptation of the first 3 volumes of Michiharu Kusunoki’s original manga serial. This version reportedly has nothing to do with the 10-film series of original videos which were released between 1991 and 2001. The film stars Yuichi Nakamura of D-BOYS fame as Akio Asakura, a 3rd-year high school student who falls in love with a souped-up Fairlady S30Z. Kazuki Kato, Masaki Sada, and Kosuke Yonehara also star.

Jolly Roger will be releasing the film in Japan this September.

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The full Japanese trailer is now out for Young-nam Kim’s Boat, aka “No Boys, No Cry” in Japan. You can find the original Korean trailer and first Japanese teaser at this link. The movie was released in Korea back in late May and Japanese distributor Phantom Film will be releasing it in August.

In the film, Jung-woo Ha (The Chaser, My Dear Enemy) plays a low-level smuggler named Hyeong-ku who uses a small boat to transport drugs to his partner in Japan, Toru (Satoshi Tsumabuki), 3 or 4 times a month. When their boss orders them to kidnap a girl name Jisu (Eri Tokunaga) and bring her to Japan, Toru sees an opportunity to steal $2 million of their organization’s money. Hyeong-ku gets caught in the middle as things go really bad for the both of them in a hurry.

Source: Official website

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Here’s the trailer for Noboru Iguchi‘s RoboGeisha. I can’t find a plot summary anywhere yet, but the trailer is pretty self-explanatory. If you’ve seen Sukeban Boy, The Machine Girl, or—God forbid—Hypertrophy Genitals Girl, you pretty much know what to expect from Iguchi by now.

No release date yet, but it will be out in Japan later this year courtesy of Kadokawa Pictures.

Source: Twitch

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Apparently YouTube RSS feeds are damn near useless. Thanks to logboy for cluing me in to the fact that there is actually a full trailer out for Tomorowo Taguchi‘s Shikisoku Generation to go with the music video I posted on Saturday. It’s also available at the film’s official website (first button, then last button) if you have the patience to wait for that damn flash frog to load.

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