Apple recently uploaded a new HD quicktime trailer for the limited US release of Takashi Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django by First Look Studios. It’s very stylized but the video quality is about 10x better than the interlaced piece of crap Apple uploaded to their Japanese site last year. Check out ryuganji for info and an interview with Miike. Incidentally, First Look’s Blu-ray and DVD releases of “Django” are slated for November 11th in the US.

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The official website for Shinobu Yaguchi‘s Happy Flight was recently updated with a fancy new layout; and with that update comes a brand new 32-second teaser taking the place of the old one. For those of you that want to check out the old one, see this post from July 19th with the video clip and full cast information.

As most of you probably know, Yaguchi is the man who brought us comedies like Waterboys, Swing Girls, and My Secret Cache. He tends to be a perfectionist while writing scripts, and in preparation for making an airline comedy he spent years learning the ins and outs of that industry. So while it’s kind of agonizing to wait years between projects, it’s always worth it. Tease ahoy!

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Shinobu Yaguchi’s new airline comedy. Coming out in Japan on November 15. 2008. For the first teaser, see this link. For the full trailer, see this link.

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Gurren Lagann: The Movie - Crimson Chapter (Gekijo Ban Tengen Toppa Guren Ragan - Guren Hen) comes out in Japan this Saturday and since I know only slightly more than nothing about anime I’ll just translate the brief synopsis provided by MovieWalker:

In the distant future humankind has moved underground. Simon and Kamina know of the existence of the terrestrial world, so they board a mecha and start digging toward the surface. But they eventually discover a world dominated by a Spiral King, and he’s been waiting for them...

Here’s a direct link to the movie’s trailer (requires Windows Media Player).

This will be the first of two planned movies to cover the story.

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Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s Maboroshi no Yamataikoku is shaping up to be one of the most uniquely Japanese movies to come out in a long time. The plot centers around a blind former railroad worker named Yohei (Naoto Takenaka) who becomes obsessed with finding the ancient country of Yamataikoku, home to the legendary shaman queen Himiko. His passion for finding it was first ignited when he uncovered ancient earthenware while making rail repairs after a flood. Now blind, he completely depends on his wife Kazuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) to make sense of his maps and lead him through the Kyushu region where he believes Yamataikoku to be.

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