Posted by kevin at 10:24pm EDT on Friday, August 22, 2008
Filed under: Comedy, Crime, Future releases, New trailers
In Komori Seikatsu Kojo Club, character actor Arata Furuta plays Komori; an ordinary, middle-aged business executive who’s recently begun to get fed up with people walking all over him. At home his wife and child make him out to be an idiot and at work his subordinates don’t respect him. One day while on a commuter train he reaches his breaking point as a woman makes false accusations about being groped, causing Komori to have his first violent outburst. From that point on he’s filled with an overwhelming sense of justice and becomes determined to completely rid his community of all crime. Before long, enthusiastic supporters start to idolize him and his work.
Posted by kevin at 5:53pm EDT on Friday, August 22, 2008
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Future releases, New trailers
Here’s some info on the latest film by Eiji Uchida, Bokura no Hoteishiki. The story involves a misunderstanding which leaves a group of students trapped in their school in the middle of the night, surrounded by police. A shy train otaku named Shinpei (Yuichi Nakamura) has been working on a model train with his two best friends, Tomio (Hiroki Aiba) and Yuuki (Shun Kaneko), in preparation for a railroad club contest being held the next day. However, Shinpei is completely distracted. He finally worked up the courage to send a love letter to the girl the three train geeks collectively refer to as “Princess Tsubaki” (Aoi Nakabeppu), the most beautiful girl in their school.
Posted by kevin at 10:52pm EDT on Thursday, August 21, 2008
Filed under: Action, Hollywood, Future releases
Take this with a grain of salt, but Film Junk is reporting that an anonymous source claims Fox execs are so unhappy with footage of their upcoming live-action Dragonball adaptation that they’re actually considering shutting down the project altogether and cutting their losses. Now, I totally believe the part about the footage being terrible. Any time you hire a former cast member of MTV’s “Real World” for a role you know you’re in trouble. But I have a really hard time believing they’d completely shut down something they’ve put so much time and money into already. So before all the 12-year-olds start to cry and the manga purists throw a victory parade let’s wait for some confirmation one way or the other.
Update:
Bzzt, they changed their minds.
Posted by kevin at 8:52pm EDT on Thursday, August 21, 2008
Filed under: Action, Anime, Future releases, New trailers
Everyone’s favorite over-the-top, head-explode-y fighting series is back with a new movie focused entirely on the original main character, Kenshiro. The 5-part “Shin Kyuseishu Densetsu” series of “Fist of the North Star” movies started in 2005 and has included re-tellings of established events as well as in-depth coverage of subplots not previously covered by the original manga or anime releases/TV shows.
Posted by kevin at 3:34pm EDT on Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Filed under: Comedy, Future releases, New trailers
Inspired by a best-selling 2002 novel by Kenichiro Nakamaru, Takahumi Motoki‘s upcoming weight-loss comedy Rock ‘n’ Roll Diet! follows the exploits of a tubby family man as he attempts to regain his former svelte rockstar glory. In the movie Gun-san (Daisuke Shima), a former rocker and current owner of rock ‘n’ roll bar “Gun’s” has recently started packing on the pounds. Now 42 and completely accustomed to wearing loose-fitting jersey outfits, his eldest daughter (Haru) is ashamed of him, his second daughter (Saaya) makes him the butt of her jokes, and his wife (Junko Mihara) becomes nostalgic for the old days. However, Gun-san is convinced that his big belly is simply a sign of his own happiness. That all changes one day when he meets a brash female guitarist named Nana (Nao Nagasawa) who drunkenly calls him out for letting himself go and losing his rock ‘n’ roll spirit in the process.
