Yesterday I covered the announcement of Asmik Ace Entertainment’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Solanin, but that was actually part of an overall schedule announcement for 2009-2010 releases. Here’s the rest of Asmik’s known line-up:

Date: 5/1
Title: The Chaser
Director: Hong-jin Na
Cast: Yun-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha
Description: A detective-turned-pimp attempts to track down some girls who recently vanished without paying their debts.

Date: 5/23
Title: A Pierrot
Director: Junichi Mori
Cast: Ryo Kase, Masaki Okada
Description: A loving family’s tragic past is revealed when the eldest son begins investigating a string of arson fires.

Date: 5/29
Title: Blood: The Last Vampire
Director: Chris Nahon
Cast: Gianna Jun, Koyuki
Description: A human/vampire hybrid named Saya hunts down the evil matriarch of all vampires.

Date: 6/27
Title: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz
Description: Two friends travel to Barcelona and become enamored with a playboy painter who has a volatile ex-wife.

Date: June
Title: Dear Doctor
Director: Miwa Nishikawa
Cast: Tsurube Shofukutei, Eita
Description: The director of Wild Berries and Sway returns with a film about a country doctor with a mysterious hidden past.

Date: 8/15
Title: Transporter 3
Director: Olivier Megaton
Cast: Jason Statham
Description: Frank Martin is tasked with the safe return of the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official, but lets personal feelings interfere with his mission.

Date: Fall
Title: Synecdoche, New York
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Description: A theater director tries to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse for his new play while dealing with various work-related and personal issues.

Date: Fall
Title: Watashi Dasuwa
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Cast: Koyuki, Toru Nakamura
Description: A woman returns to her hometown after fulfilling her goal of amassing lots of money and finds nothing has changed.

Date: Fall
Title: Kuki Ningyo
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast: Doona Bae, Arata
Description: A blowup doll comes to life and strikes up a relationship with a lonely video store clerk.

Date: 2009
Title: Sayonara Itsuka
Director: John H. Lee
Cast: Miho Nakayama, Hidetoshi Nishijima
Description: In 1970s Bangkok, a woman gets engaged to an elite businessman. They eventually get separated but meet again 25 years later.

Date: 2009
Title: District 13: Ultimatum
Director: Patrick Alessandrin
Cast: Cyril Raffaelli
Description: The sequel to 2004’s District B13. Five gang lords fight to fill the power vacuum left by former overlord Taha Bemamud.

Date: 2009
Title: Midnight Meat Train
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Cast: Bradley Cooper
Description: A New York photographer obsessively hunts down a serial killer.

Date: 2009
Title: Go Fast
Director: Olivier Van Hoofstadt
Cast: Roschdy Zem
Description: French thriller about an Algerian undercover cop attempts to infiltrate a gang of dangerous drug traffickers to avenge the death of his friend.

Date: 2009
Title: Black Gaisha ni Tsutometerundaga, Mou Ore wa Genkai Kamoshirenai
Director: Yuichi Sato
Cast: TBA
Description: A computer geek who’s still jobless 10 years out of high school is suddenly forced to get a slave-driving job at a troubled IT company when his mother dies. Based on a novel by Yuto Kuroi which has been described as a modern-day Kanikosen

Date: 2009
Title: 3D Thriller Project (temporary title)
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Cast: TBA
Description: Details forthcoming

Date: 2010
Title: Mr. Nobody
Director: Jaco van Dormael
Cast: Jared Leto
Description: In the year 2092 a 120-year-old man named Nemo Nobody is the last mortal of the human species, as everyone else has become immortal due to scientific advances. But to Nemo, that fact is secondary to reviewing how he lived out his life—if he can separate the real from the imagined.

Date: 2010
Title: I Love You Phillip Morris
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Cast: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor
Description: Based on the real life events of multiple prison escapee Steven Jay Russell. Russell falls in love with a cell mate named Phillip Morris. After Morris is released, Russel escapes prison four separate times to be with him.

Date: 2010
Title: Solanin
Director: Takahiro Miki
Cast: Aoi Miyazaki, Kengo Kora
Description: Live-action adaptation of Inio Asano’s manga. A young couple struggle to adapt to adult life after college.

Date: 2010
Title: Norwegian Wood
Director: Anh Hung Tran
Cast: TBA
A businessman reminisces about past romances experienced during his college years in the turbulent 1960s. Based on a novel by Haruki Murakami.

Date: TBD
Title: Nobo no Shiro
Director: Isshin Inudo, Shinji Higuchi
Cast: TBA
Description: Toyotomi Hideyoshi has unified most of Japan, but a lone floating fortress still stands in his way. Based on a novel by Ryo Wada.

Date: TBD
Title: Ooku
Director: Fumiki Kaneko
Cast: TBA
Description: Based on a popular manga by Fumi Yoshinaga, Ōoku features an alternate version of Japan in which a disease has drastically decreased the male population, turning the nation into a matriarchal society.

Source: Variety Japan (dead link removed)

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