Trailer for Takeshi Kitano’s ‘Achilles and the Tortoise’
Posted by Kevin Ouellette at 4:00am on Friday, June 20, 2008 EST
Filed under: Drama, Future releases, Trailer Updates
From Jason Gray comes the news that the release date for Takeshi Kitano’s latest movie, Achilles and the Tortoise (Akiresu to Kami) has been set for September 20, 2008. The movie’s title comes from one of Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea’s paradoxes; which surmises that motion, time, and change are all illusions. In the film Kitano plays Machisu, a man who was born into an affluent family, but loses both his parents suddenly as a child and decides to follow his dream of becoming a painter. Kanako Higuchi (Ashura, Memories of Tomorrow) plays his wife, who continues to be supportive of his painting throughout the years even though he’s never had any success and sometimes gets discouraged himself. Yourei Yanagi (Ju-on, Kaidan) and Kumiko Aso (Kairo, Casshern) play the same couple in their younger years. Check out the new trailer below.
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Tags: achilles and the tortoise, akira nakao, art, aya enjoji, eri tokunaga, kanako higuchi, kumiko aso, mariko tsutsui, masato ibu, nao omori, painting, reiko yoshioka, ren osugi, susumu terajima, takeshi kitano, yourei yanagi
Comments
aww so warm and fuzzy, like hanabi x kikujiro. is he settling into old age so early? AK only started in his 80s.
Posted by ed at 5:55pm EST on Friday, June 20, 2008
Looks like it’ll be a sweet film.
Was Kitano a massive fan of Casshern or something, as even Kanako Higuchi was in that film!
Posted by Talvalin at 4:56am EST on Monday, June 23, 2008
nice find, beautiful trailer…
Posted by logboy at 9:56am EST on Friday, June 20, 2008