Here’s the new trailer for Hiroshi Nishitani’s Suspect X (Yougisha X no Kenshin). I posted the first teaser here last month but the new trailer seems to do a better job of conveying the tone of the film and the comedic rapport between Kou Shibasaki and Masaharu Fukuyama. Based on a Fuji TV drama that featured the same two actors, the film centers around a mysterious murder in which the victim’s hand is severely burned but the cause of death is actually strangulation. Detective Kaoru Utsumi (Shibasaki) attempts to corroborate the alibi of the victim’s ex-wife and discovers the woman’s neighbor, a genius high school math teacher named Tetsuya Ishigami (Shinichi Tsutsumi), went to Teito University—the same school as genius physicist Manabu Yukawa, aka “Galileo” (Fukuyama). Knowing it will take a genius to catch a genius she enlists the help of Yukawa to figure out Ishigami’s role in all of it.

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To be honest I’m a bit wary of even mentioning Toshikazu Nagae’s latest attempt at horror, Hoso Kinshi Gekijo Ban because the first attempt: “Ghost System” was one of my least favorite movies of all time. And yet, girls in blank masks are kind of creepy, so here goes. In 2003 Fuji TV started airing a series of documentaries called “Hoso Kinshi” (banned from broadcast) late at night about creepy events as told to the interviewer by the people who were supposedly involved. They were staged to seem as real as possible so it caused a lot of confusion that got people talking and all that buzz just ended up making it more popular.

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2 years after her break-through, Oscar-nominated performance in “Babel” and a few months before her next Hollywood flick, “The Brothers Bloom” is released, Rinko Kikuchi is in talks to star in Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, directed by Isabel Coixet. The film will be produced by the Spanish company Mediapro but is set in Japan. The story involves a fish market employee (Kikuchi) who doubles as a contract killer. The Spanish-born Coixet has formerly directed various critically-acclaimed dramas like “Elegy” starring Penelope Cruz and “My Life Without Me” starring Sarah Polley.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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A reporter tracks down the strange masked proprietor of a website that specializes in paid revenge and captures some of her horrific handiwork on camera. For the teaser, see this link.

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A reporter tracks down the strange masked proprietor of a website that specializes in paid revenge and captures some of her horrific handiwork on camera. For the full trailer, see this link.

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