Posted by kevin at 11:58pm EDT on Monday, February 4, 2008
Filed under: Future releases, Movie announcements
Earlier today an announcement was posted on the website for Makoto Tanaka’s upcoming comedy Utatama that the film will be released on April 5th. For those who haven’t been following the project, Utatama has been marketed as sort of a torchbearer for the recent string of megahit feel-good zero-to-hero comedies like Waterboys, Swing Girls, and Hula Girls. This time around the subject is a school choir lead by the mildly uptight perfectionist Kasumi (Kaho).
If you’ve tried to view this site in the past hour or two you would have seen every page re-directing back to the index. Apparently my server was upgraded in a way that made some of my custom .htaccess commands buggy. Okay, that sounds confusing. The bottom line is it’s fixed now.
Posted by kevin at 5:50pm EDT on Monday, February 4, 2008
Filed under: Action, Future releases
The creators of the upcoming Stephen Chow-produced film Shaolin Girl are having a hard time convincing Japanese bloggers it’s about Shaolin Kung-Fu at all. While some people have been mistaking the martial arts used in the film and its Hong Kong predecessor “Shaolin Soccer” for Shorinji Kempo - a Japanese martial art inspired by Shaolin Kung-Fu, others are convinced it’s about Kobayashi Shorin-ryu, an Okinawan style of karate. Apparently the kanji for “Shaolin” (少林) is so close to the kanji for “Kobayashi” (小林) that many Japanese blogs and online media outlets have been reporting on the two films under the titles “Kobayashi Soccer” and “Kobayashi Girl”.
Posted by kevin at 7:28am EDT on Sunday, February 3, 2008
Filed under: Future releases
The teaser is out for Cyborg She (Boku no Kanojo wa Cyborg), directed by Jae-young Kwak of “My Sassy Girl” fame. Even though production company Amuse hired a Korean director to head the project, this is an entirely Japanese movie and was filmed in Japan with a Japanese cast. Here’s the premise: One day a dull university named Jiro (Keisuke Koide) meets a cyborg from the future (Haruka Ayase). They start to like each other, but since she can’t truly feel emotions he decides he has to leave her. Eventually, an earthquake hits Tokyo and she saves Jiro’s life, predictably discovering she really is capable of emotions after all.
Posted by kevin at 8:43pm EDT on Friday, February 1, 2008
Filed under: Future releases, Movie announcements
Satoshi Tsumabuki (Waterboys, Dororo) has been cast alongside actress Rei Dan in the 2009 Takahisa Zeze film Kansen Rettou, which translates to “Archipelago Infection”. The story, inspired by recent fear of avian flu, involves a large-scale virus which infects 25 million people. Tsumabaki will play a doctor working to save lives at a field hospital and Dan will play a medical officer from the World Health Organization.
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