Posted by kevin at 10:42am EDT on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Filed under: Fantasy, Future releases
Minoru Kawasaki has been getting a lot of attention here and around the web for The Monster X Strikes Back / Attack the G8 Summit, his big-budget sci-fi comedy due out in July. But slightly under the radar right now is his upcoming hair-styling fantasy Kamigakari. The story of Kamigakari involves a hair stylist (Mari Natsuki) with seemingly magical powers who welcomes customers into her shop, only to have them fall asleep in her chair. When they wake up they discover their hair has been completely transformed into a bizarre new style. They’re initially shocked when they see themselves, but she tells them how amazing they look with complete self-confidence and her approving smile somehow causes them to accept the change, and even change their lives.
Posted by kevin at 11:01am EDT on Thursday, April 24, 2008
Filed under: Comedy, Future releases
A press conference was held by Toei Company in Nerimaku Tokyo on Sunday for Kankuro Kudo’s upcoming rock ‘n’ roll comedy Shonen Merikensack. Kudo was in attendance along with stars Aoi Miyazaki, Yuichi Kimura, Tomorowo Taguchi, Hiroki Miyake, Yusuke Santamaria, and Koichi Sato. The press conference covered fairly typical promotional fluff. Kudo expressed his appreciation of Toei’s trust in him, Sato talked about the energy of the film and his love of rock music, and Miyazaki talked about how she was initially tentative because she doesn’t like loud music but when she finally saw the band together she though it was really cool. She also said if she was ever in a band she’d want to play the drums.
Posted by kevin at 5:53am EDT on Saturday, April 19, 2008
Filed under: Drama
Okay, chances are this one will be of interest to me and about 4 other people, but the trailer for Oku Shuntaro’s Death of Domomata (Domomata no Shi) was recently posted on its official website. I’ve been keeping tabs on this one for months now because I really like the cast, but I must admit I really don’t know all that much about it other than it revolves around a bunch of emotionally-volatile drug-addicted girls putting on a production of Takeo Arishima’s 1922 stage play “Domomato no Shi,” which itself was based on Mark Twain’s short story “Is He Living or Is He Dead?”
Posted by kevin at 1:43pm EDT on Thursday, March 27, 2008
Filed under: Comedy
Here’s one upcoming movie that may have gotten lost in the shuffle because of a mid-production title change. The official website for Takahisa Zeze‘s Flying Rabbits, formerly known as “Flying Girls” is now up along with a short teaser trailer. The movie is inspired by a Yusuke Fukada novel called “Tobe! Rabbits” in which two members of Japan Airlines’s all-girl basketball team JAL Rabbits played on Japan’s national team in the 2004 Olympics.
Flying rabbits opens September 13, 2008.
Links:
Official website - Click the last link of the navigation for the teaser
Original announcement at Tokyograph
Posted by kevin at 7:14pm EDT on Monday, March 17, 2008
Filed under: Horror, Future releases
Okay, I’ve been out of the loop for a while but I’m back. Lots of stuff to catch up on so I’m starting really small and wading my way through all these updates I’ve been meaning to post over the past 3 weeks. The official website for Kuchisake Onna 2, the prequel to 2007’s Kuchisake Onna, aka “Carved” now has a trailer on the front page of its website. In the movie 16-year-old Rin Asuka plays a high school girl named Mayumi whose older sister’s ex-boyfriend disfigures her face with sulfuric acid, causing her to eventually become the murderous slit-mouthed woman. It was filmed on a lower budget than its predecessor but will get a legitimate theatrical release on March 22nd in Japan.
Links:
Official website
Eigapedia
