Here’s one upcoming movie that may have gotten lost in the shuffle because of a mid-production title change. The official website for Takahisa Zeze‘s Flying Rabbits, formerly known as “Flying Girls” is now up along with a short teaser trailer. The movie is inspired by a Yusuke Fukada novel called “Tobe! Rabbits” in which two members of Japan Airlines’s all-girl basketball team JAL Rabbits played on Japan’s national team in the 2004 Olympics.

Flying rabbits opens September 13, 2008.

Links:
Official website - Click the last link of the navigation for the teaser
Original announcement at Tokyograph

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Okay, I’ve been out of the loop for a while but I’m back. Lots of stuff to catch up on so I’m starting really small and wading my way through all these updates I’ve been meaning to post over the past 3 weeks. The official website for Kuchisake Onna 2, the prequel to 2007’s Kuchisake Onna, aka “Carved” now has a trailer on the front page of its website. In the movie 16-year-old Rin Asuka plays a high school girl named Mayumi whose older sister’s ex-boyfriend disfigures her face with sulfuric acid, causing her to eventually become the murderous slit-mouthed woman. It was filmed on a lower budget than its predecessor but will get a legitimate theatrical release on March 22nd in Japan.

Links:
Official website
Eigapedia

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The new poster art for Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Girl was released today, with more cast members featured along with the film’s star, Kou Shibasaki. Starting on March 8th these will start getting plastered all over Japanese theaters, leading up to its release on April 26th.

Source: Shaolin Girl production blog

Links:
Eigapedia

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The sequel to 2007’s Gegege no Kitaro, now officially titled Gegege no Kitaro: Sennen Noroi Uta (millennium curse song), will be released on July 12th, 2008. The official website now has a trailer up which you can view by clicking on the speech bubble next to Medama-oyaji (the little eyeball dude).

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The site for Chameleon: Long Goodbye, which we first wrote about here, just rolled out a new flash layout and added a new trailer. There are no new movie clips in the second trailer but there is some production footage, a short clip of Tatsuya Fujiwara talking about the project, and at the very end we get to see him doing a pretty cool stunt sliding down a metal staircase on his butt. I, for one, am officially sold. The menu is in English so check out the official website and click on “Trailer” for the video.

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