Thanks to Quiet Earth and The Gomorrahizer for the heads up on this one. Tak Sakaguchi‘s second directorial effort, Samurai Zombie (Yoroi) will premiere at this year’s upcoming Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan). Here’s the official description from the festival’s website:

A family is kidnapped by a couple who have guns. Wandering lost, they get together in a place where there are zombies in samurai armor. Encountering zombies and police, reunited family struggle and get to confront a tragic secret. A fun action-horror on the low budget B-movie.

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This discussion over at Jason Gray’s blog about Koki Mitani’s media whorin’ ways reminded me about this “Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!” clip from last month where Satoshi Tsumabuki, Koichi Sato, and Mitani showed up for a “Yabecchi Sushi” segment (basically talk, promote stuff, eat something, smack each other around, etc.) I also included a segment with Haruka Ayase, who seems to know the drill—compliment Mechaike and Ninety-nine and you get more free PR for your movie. Finally, I left in the final segment with pop duo Tackey & Tsubasa trying to get through a performance of “Koi Uta” with Tsubasa taking Takashi Okamura’s pun-filled guidance. It has absolutely nothing to do with movies, I’m just easily amused.

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Takahisa Zeze‘s upcoming basketball flick Flying Rabbits seems to have blown its news wad a little earlier than expected given its September 13 release date, so I figured it’s as good a time as any to catch everyone up on what we know so far.

The story revolves around a girl named Yukari (Satomi Ishihara) who has always aspired to become a CA (cabin attendant). She gets hired by Japan Airlines, but due to an unexpected slip-up she’s also recruited to the company’s basketball team, “JAL Rabbits”. Splitting time between her training as an attendant and playing basketball, Yukari keeps messing up in both areas. She stinks at basketball and keeps getting reprimanded by her mean old CA trainer. Not used to dealing with hardships like this, she wants to quit and go home—but eventually finds the strength to keep trying. Seems like a pretty pedestrian inspirational dramedy filled with pretty girls. I’m in.

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A stewardess splits her time between working at JAL and playing basketball for a team called the Rabbits.

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A stewardess splits her time between working at JAL and playing basketball for a team called the Rabbits.

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