Posted by kevin at 12:38pm EDT on Friday, February 29, 2008
Filed under: Fantasy, Future releases, New trailers
The sequel to 2007’s Gegege no Kitaro, now officially titled Gegege no Kitaro: Sennen Noroi Uta (millennium curse song), will be released on July 12th, 2008. The official website now has a trailer up which you can view by clicking on the speech bubble next to Medama-oyaji (the little eyeball dude).
Posted by kevin at 10:00am EDT on Friday, February 29, 2008
Filed under: Thriller, Future releases
The site for Chameleon: Long Goodbye, which we first wrote about here, just rolled out a new flash layout and added a new trailer. There are no new movie clips in the second trailer but there is some production footage, a short clip of Tatsuya Fujiwara talking about the project, and at the very end we get to see him doing a pretty cool stunt sliding down a metal staircase on his butt. I, for one, am officially sold. The menu is in English so check out the official website and click on “Trailer” for the video.
Posted by kevin at 4:55am EDT on Thursday, February 28, 2008
Filed under: Movie people, TV
TV Tokyo has a 51-episode drama entitled Keitai Sousakan 7 (Cellphone Investigation 7) in the works, with Takashi Miike serving as supervising director. Some of the other directors involved in the project are Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), Shusuke Kaneko (Death Note), and Manabu Aso (One Missed Call: Final). The main protagonist of the show, Kieta (Masataka Kubota), is a high school freshman who is enlisted to join an organization called “Anchor” in order to bring down an internet crime syndicate. He’s given a little robot named “Phonebraver 7” to assist him which is capable of transforming into a cellphone. Apparently it’s also capable of becoming a marketing gimmick to sell creepy little SoftBank cellphones with arms and legs at some point in the future, as one would expect.
Posted by kevin at 9:05pm EDT on Monday, February 25, 2008
Filed under: Future releases, Movie announcements
Earlier today renowned Japanese photographer Kazumi Kurigami held a press conference at Cinema Jack & Betty movie theater to announce production of his directorial debut entitled Gelatin Silver Love. Also in attendance were the film’s stars, Masatoshi Nagase, Rie Miyazawa, and Koji Yakusho. “Gelatin silver” is a reference to the process of developing black and white photographs and in the film Rie Miyazawa wears a silver-colored wig which she showed off at the press conference.
Posted by kevin at 7:52pm EDT on Monday, February 25, 2008
Filed under: Horror, Mystery, Future releases, New trailers
Phantom Film released the poster art and a new trailer for the live-action adaptation of Shrill Cries of Summer (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) today. The movie, which will be released on May 10th, is a murder mystery based on a visual novel which was later adapted to a manga and anime series. In the story a boy named Keiichi (Goki Maeda) moves to the small village of Hinamizawa in 1983 and quickly fits in with his new peers. However, after the annual Watanagashi Festival some of his friends start to act weird and it’s revealed through conversations with a veteran police officer (Tetta Sugimoto) that every year around this time mysterious murders and disappearances occur. Judging from the characters involved the movie is most likely limited to the first visual novel, Onikakushi-hen.
