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Mamoru Hosoda's Scarlet Anime Film Announces 11 New Voice Cast Members
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The official website for Mamoru Hosoda's new anime feature film Scarlet ("Hateshinaki Scarlet" in Japan) announced 11 new voice cast members today. As previously reported , actor Mana Ashida is cast as the title role, Scarlet, while actor Masaki Okada plays Hijiri, a man from modern Japan who accompanies Scarlet on her journey of revenge. The newly announced voice cast includes ( Editor's note: Official English spellings for the character names have not yet been announced. ): Claudius voiced by Koji Yakusho A ruthless and inhumane king. Seeking power, he murdered King Amlet, Scarlett's father and his own brother, to ascend to the throne. For some reason, he ends up in the “Land of the Dead,” and he wants Scarlet's life. Amlet voiced by Masachika Ichimura Scarlett's father, the kind-hearted king of a country, was framed and executed by Claudius. Voltimand voiced by Kotaro Yoshida A close associate of Claudius who follows the knights.
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  • 16/7/2025
  • por Mikikazu Komatsu
  • Crunchyroll
Short Film Review: AI Love You (2023) by Raita Yabushita
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The recent fast diffusion of Artificial Intelligence functions in many aspects of our life has unlocked several potential benefits. However, it has also generated a series of concerns and fears of replacing very human characteristics, especially in creative fields such as art and poetry and in other personal and intimate aspects of life such as love and relationships. The 7-minute short film “AI Love You” is a playful and yet acute reflection about this very contemporary debate.

AI Love You is screening at Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia

In a very near future, a young couple is about to have lunch with the parents of the woman. They have been dating for a while, about 5 years, but this lunch yields a special significance as the man (Tokio Emoto) is about to ask permission of his partner's parents to marry her; consequently, they are very nervous, especially the man, of course.
Ver el artículo completo en AsianMoviePulse
  • 11/6/2024
  • por Adriana Rosati
  • AsianMoviePulse
Wim Wenders Discusses Perfect Days and Why He Chose Joy
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Few directors are as downright international as the great Wim Wenders. The German filmmaker has traveled the continents, making movies in German, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, French, and Japanese, sometimes all in the same film. Focusing on people who are often traveling or in a state of transit, Wenders is a master of road movies, epitomizing the notion that 'movement is freedom.' His five-hour masterpiece, Until the End of the World, literally travels the globe, and his early German films ars often referred to as 'The Road Trilogy.'

After six years of making documentaries, Wim Wenders has now directed another fiction film, but it is so organic, so natural a character study, that it practically transcends fiction. Perfect Days, co-written with producer Takuma Takasaki, follows the mundane daily activities of a quiet older man who works as a public toilet attendant and maintains a simple, habitual existence.

In the past decade,...
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  • 9/2/2024
  • por Matt Mahler
  • MovieWeb
Perfect Days Review: A Simple & Sincere Drama About The Beauty Of Everyday Life
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In Perfect Days, Hirayama finds beauty in the simplicity of his routine, but also cherishes unexpected moments that disrupt it. Despite his isolation, Hirayama feels connected to the world through his love of nature and his role in the larger whole. The film contrasts the peacefulness of nature with the busy cityscape of Tokyo, showcasing the serenity of Hirayama's perspective.

Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho) wakes up with the Tokyo dawn, the sky as purple as the ultraviolet light that nourishes his plants and illuminates his modest apartment. His routine is a meticulous one — he goes to work cleaning public restrooms of the city, bathes in a public bathhouse, eats dinner at one of a few regular spots, and goes on. Perfect Days is engrossing in its monotony and fascinating when something disrupts it, a portrait of a simple but beautiful existence that serves as a life-affirming reminder to value the little...
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  • 9/2/2024
  • por Graeme Guttmann
  • ScreenRant
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Perfect Days review: Wim Wenders' sweet and simple return to form
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Koji Yakusho and Arisa Nakano in Perfect Days Photo: Cannes Film Festival In Perfect Days, the camera follows a man as he goes about his morning. Getting up, brushing his teeth, shaving, watering his plants, dressing, going to work. The question on the audience’s mind is, of course, who is he?...
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  • 7/2/2024
  • por Murtada Elfadl
  • avclub.com
Perfect Days review: Wim Wenders' sweet and simple return to form
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Koji Yakusho and Arisa Nakano in Perfect DaysPhoto: Cannes Film Festival

In Perfect Days, the camera follows a man as he goes about his morning. Getting up, brushing his teeth, shaving, watering his plants, dressing, going to work. The question on the audience’s mind is, of course, who is he?...
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  • 7/2/2024
  • por Murtada Elfadl
  • avclub.com
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‘Perfect Days’ Features the Best Screen Performance in Recent Memory
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You may know Kōji Yakusho as the oyster-slurping mystery man from the noodle-Western extraordinaire Tampopo (1985). Perhaps you remember him as the depressed suburbanite who ballroom dances his blues away in the international feel-good hit Shall We Dance? (1996). He’s the reformed felon in the Cannes-winning character study The Eel (1997), a former muse to filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa in the late Nineties and early aughts, the familiar face who graced Hollywood fare like Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and Babel (2006), and — if you’ve followed his 40-plus years as a major figure in...
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  • 7/2/2024
  • por David Fear
  • Rollingstone.com
Perfect Days Review | Wim Wenders' Beautiful Ode to Joy
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Wim Wenders' Perfect Days is a beautifully complicated film that explores the joy and beauty of simplicity. Koji Yakusho delivers a masterful performance as the main character, Hirayama, who finds happiness in the simplest of things. The film uses creative visual decisions and a carefully curated selection of classic rock songs to emphasize the theme of finding beauty in the mundane.

Whether it’s raining or the sky is full of cloudless sunshine, the main character in legendary filmmaker Wim Wenders' Perfect Days is consistently happy. A public toilet cleaner by the name of Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho) seemingly finds joy in what could easily be described as the simplest of things: picking up discounted novellas at the local bookstore, partaking in his hobby of shooting trees with his old Olympus camera, and adopting little saplings he finds on the ground when he goes on his lunch break. Oh, and he...
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  • 7/2/2024
  • por Salvatore Cento
  • MovieWeb
February 2024 film preview: New movies from J. Lo, a Coen brother, and Diablo Cody
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Clockwise from bottom left: Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton in Lisa Frankenstein, Jennifer Lopez in This Is Me ... Now, Orion And The Dark, Margaret Qualley in Drive-Away Dolls, and Chip in ArgyllePhoto: Prime, Focus Features, Universal Pictures, Netflix

January may be in the rearview, but movie theaters are still...
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  • 31/1/2024
  • por Matt Schimkowitz
  • avclub.com
Wim Wenders' New Film Perfect Days Releases Its Trailer
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Neon has released the official trailer for Perfect Days, the latest film from acclaimed director Wim Wenders, featuring four interconnected short stories led by Kōji Yakusho. Perfect Days premiered at Cannes and received positive reviews, earning the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Best Actor Award for Kōji Yakusho. It is Japan's entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. Wenders, known for his visually stunning films, directs Perfect Days, which will be released in German theaters in December, followed by a release in Japan and the US in early 2024.

Neon has unveiled the official trailer for Perfect Days, the latest feature from auteur Wim Wenders. The drama uses vignettes led by Kōji Yakusho, who stars as a public toilet cleaner named Hirayama, to tell a simple and beautiful story about life. The trailer, set to Lou Reed's "Perfect Day," follows Hirayama through what starts as a typical day.
Ver el artículo completo en MovieWeb
  • 11/11/2023
  • por Patricia Abaroa
  • MovieWeb
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Full US Trailer for Wim Wenders' 'Perfect Days' Starring Kôji Yakusho
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"Now is now." Neon rated has unveiled their official US trailer for an indie gem titled Perfect Days, the latest narrative film by prolific German filmmaker Wim Wenders. This won Best Actor at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival this summer - where it first premiered. It also played at TIFF, NYFF, Telluride, London, and many other fests; and Japan has submitted it as their Academy Awards pick for this year. Perfect Days is set in Tokyo, Japan and the film follows a toilet cleaner who reminiscences about the simple beauty of life. The film is a deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us. It follows Hirayama, who seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them.
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  • 9/11/2023
  • por Alex Billington
  • firstshowing.net
Oscars: Japan Selects Wim Wenders Cannes Competition Title ‘Perfect Days’ For Best International Film Race
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Japan has selected Perfect Days, the Tokyo-based fiction feature from German filmmaker Wim Wenders, as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.

The pic, which debuted in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, was picked by the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. The decision marks the first time a non-Japanese filmmaker has been chosen to lead the country’s Oscars push. Wenders’ Perfect Days is likely to have beat out Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron for the spot.

The film’s official synopsis reads: Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine, he enjoys his passion for music and books. He loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveals more of his past.

Starring are Koji Yakusho (Babel), newcomer Arisa Nakano,...
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  • 4/9/2023
  • por Zac Ntim
  • Deadline Film + TV
Wim Wenders’ Cannes Competition Title ‘Perfect Days’ Sells Out For The Match Factory
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Wim Wenders’ Tokyo-based Cannes Competition title Perfect Days has clocked a series of international deals for The Match Factory.

Deals reported include UK/Ireland/Latam/Turkey (Mubi), Australia/New Zealand (Madman), Benelux (Paradiso), China (DDDream), Italy (Lucky Red), Spain (A Contracorriente), Switzerland (Dcm), Baltics (A-One Baltics), Bulgaria (Art Fest), Cis (A-One), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Aerofilms), Former Yugoslavia (McF), Greece (Feelgood Entertainment), Hong Kong (Edko Films), Hungary (Cirko), Israel (Lev Cinemas), Poland (Gutek), Portugal (Alambique), Romania (Bad Unicorn), Scandinavia (Future Film) and Taiwan (Applause).

North American rights were previously sold to Neon, while France went to Haut et Court.

The official synopsis for the movie reads: Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected...
Ver el artículo completo en Deadline Film + TV
  • 31/5/2023
  • por Zac Ntim
  • Deadline Film + TV
Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days,’ Cannes Best Actor Award Winner, Sells Out Worldwide
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Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days,” which won the best actor award for Koji Yakusho at the Cannes Film Festival, has sold out worldwide. The Match Factory is handling international sales. (Read our interview with Wim Wenders here.)

As previously announced, North American rights went to Neon and France went to Haut et Court.

Further sales included U.K./Ireland/Latin America/Turkey (Mubi), Australia/New Zealand (Madman), Benelux (Paradiso), China (DDDream), Italy (Lucky Red), Spain (A Contracorriente), Switzerland (Dcm), Baltics (A-One Baltics), Bulgaria (Art Fest), Cis (A-One), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Aerofilms), Former Yugoslavia (McF), Greece (Feelgood Entertainment), Hong Kong (Edko Films), Hungary (Cirko), Israel (Lev Cinemas), Poland (Gutek), Portugal (Alambique), Romania (Bad Unicorn), Scandinavia (Future Film) and Taiwan (Applause).

The film is a deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us. It follows Hirayama, who seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo.
Ver el artículo completo en Variety Film + TV
  • 31/5/2023
  • por Leo Barraclough
  • Variety Film + TV
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‘Perfect Days’ Review: Wim Wenders Finds Beauty in the Quotidian in Exquisite Japanese Drama About Gratitude
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Holding an extended closing shot on a character’s face has often been an effective way to illuminate whatever thoughts and feelings are running through their head, to keep them resonating through the end credits and even beyond. The device worked exceptionally well in Call Me by Your Name, Benediction and Michael Clayton.

Wim Wenders ends his eloquent and emotionally rich Japanese drama, Perfect Days, with such a shot, held tight on the extraordinarily expressive face of Koji Yakusho as his character drives through Tokyo reflecting on the rewards and perhaps also the regrets of his life with the same spirit of openness and acceptance, embracing the sadness as much as the joy.

The song that this resolutely analog man is listening to on his car cassette player is a Nina Simone standard that has become one of the most overused tracks in contemporary movies. But it fits the scene...
Ver el artículo completo en The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
  • 25/5/2023
  • por David Rooney
  • The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Palme d’Or Whisperer Neon Nearing North American Deal With The Match Factory For Wim Wenders’ Cannes Competition Movie ‘Perfect Days’
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Exclusive: Neon is nearing a deal for North American rights to Cannes competition entry Perfect Days from The Match Factory in a deal pegged in the mid-to-high six figures.

The parties declined to comment.

Wim Wenders’ well-received Japan-set movie debuted today on the Croisette. The official synopsis for the movie reads: Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past.

Starring are Koji Yakusho (Babel), newcomer Arisa Nakano, Tokio Emoto (Norwegian Wood), Yumi Aso (Carnation), Sayuri Ishikawa, Tomokazu Miura (Adrift in Tokyo), Aoi Yamada (Netflix series First Love) and veteran actor and dancer Min Tanaka (The Twilight Samurai).

Related: Cannes Film Festival 2023: All...
Ver el artículo completo en Deadline Film + TV
  • 25/5/2023
  • por Andreas Wiseman and Mike Fleming Jr
  • Deadline Film + TV
‘Perfect Days’ Review: Wim Wenders’ Japanese Odyssey Is A Small But Gentle Wonder – Cannes Film Festival
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The dignity of labor is explored with gentle humor and a very melancholy sense of joie de vivre in Wim Wenders’ second 2023 Cannes entry after his 3D documentary Anselm. Shot entirely in Japan, with very little English spoken, Perfect Days is an unusual film from a westerner since it does nothing to “other” a country that is often romanticized as a series of specific cultural signifiers. It’s a compliment to say that Jim Jarmusch could have made it.

The working title for the film was apparently Tokyo Toilet, the name of the company that employs the film’s gnomic central character, Hirayama (Koji Yakusho). The first half-hour is a masterclass in economy, and could even pass muster as a short: Hirayama rises from his bachelor futon, goes to work, cleans the city’s conveniences with a dignified gusto, then relaxes...
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  • 25/5/2023
  • por Damon Wise
  • Deadline Film + TV
‘Perfect Days’ Review: Wim Wenders’ Gentle Japanese Character Study Is His Best Narrative Film in Decades
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Before you ask, yes, Lou Reed’s rock standard “Perfect Day” does indeed make an appearance in Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days”: on the protagonist’s stereo as suitably ideal sunlight pours into his small, neat Tokyo apartment, before swarming the soundtrack as we head out into the city on a calm weekend afternoon. If that sounds a little obvious, basic even, said protagonist Hirayama — a mellow, soft-spoken toilet cleaner beautifully played by Kōji Yakusho — would probably agree with a shrug. He’s into simple pleasures, not deep cuts. His solitary life is built around the things that make him happy and the work that keeps him solvent. He’s not inclined to wonder what other people make of it. Wenders’ film, in turn, is sincere and unassuming, and owns its sentimentality with good humor.

“Perfect Days” finds its maker in bracing, uncomplicated form: It hasn’t the ecstatic spiritualist...
Ver el artículo completo en Variety Film + TV
  • 25/5/2023
  • por Guy Lodge
  • Variety Film + TV
Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
‘Perfect Days’ Review: Wim Wenders’ Quiet Drama Finds a Hero Who Cleans Toilets
Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
A man who lives alone in spartan accommodation, sticking to the same daily routine, devoting himself to his job and barely speaking to anyone? Cinema has taught us that he is bound to be an assassin, a spy, a fugitive or a potential mass murderer. But in Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days,” which premiered in the Main Competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, he is a modest toilet cleaner – and this gentle, philosophical character study is all the more mesmeric for it.

The 77-year-old director’s fictional work has been overshadowed by his documentaries lately, but his new film, a fictional work which sometimes resembles a documentary, is a significant return to form for the director who won the Palme d’Or in 1984 for “Paris, Texas.” It begins by introducing us to the middle-aged Hirayama (Koji Yakusho) as he wakes up alone in his small flat. Once he’s cleaned his teeth,...
Ver el artículo completo en The Wrap
  • 25/5/2023
  • por Nicholas Barber
  • The Wrap
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Festival Promo Trailer for Wim Wender's Japan-Set Film 'Perfect Days'
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"Next time is next time." The Match Factory has revealed an official trailer for an indie film titled Perfect Days, the latest narrative film made by the prolific German filmmaker Wim Wenders. He's been making a mix of docs and features recently, and this is one of two new films premiering at Cannes this year. Perfect Days is set in Japan and the film follows a toilet cleaner who remiscences about the simple beauty of life. Yes, for real, but it looks so lovely. Here's a description: The film is a deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us. It follows Hirayama, who seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. Starring Koji Yakusho,...
Ver el artículo completo en firstshowing.net
  • 22/5/2023
  • por Alex Billington
  • firstshowing.net
Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days,’ in Competition in Cannes, Debuts Trailer (Exclusive)
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Variety has been given a sneak peek of the trailer (below) for Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days,” which world premieres in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film is a deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us. It follows Hirayama, who seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past.

Koji Yakusho leads the cast. In 2005, he co-starred in “Memoirs of a Geisha,” which was nominated for six Academy Awards. In the following year, he co-starred in “Babel,” a film that was honored by the Cannes Film Festival and earned Golden Globes and Academy Awards.

Along with his international success, Yakusho has...
Ver el artículo completo en Variety Film + TV
  • 20/5/2023
  • por Leo Barraclough
  • Variety Film + TV
The Match Factory To Handle Wim Wenders’ Tokyo-Set Cannes Competition Entry ‘Perfect Days’, Film Details & First-Look Revealed
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Exclusive: The Match Factory will be handling world sales on Wim Wenders’ Japan-set Cannes Competition entry Perfect Days.

The film reunites three-time Oscar nominee Wenders with Cannes, where he has debuted 12 movies and previously won the Palme d’Or for Paris, Texas.

The official synopsis reads: “Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past.” Above is a first look image of the film.

Starring are Koji Yakusho (Babel), newcomer Arisa Nakano, Tokio Emoto (Norwegian Wood), Yumi Aso (Carnation), Sayuri Ishikawa, Tomokazu Miura (Adrift in Tokyo), Aoi Yamada (Netflix series First Love) and veteran actor and dancer...
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  • 14/4/2023
  • por Andreas Wiseman
  • Deadline Film + TV
Film Review: Blue (2021) by Keisuke Yoshida
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“Nobuto Urita is a boxer who loves his sport more than anything. No matter how hard he tries, he keeps losing his matches. Meanwhile, Kazuki Ogawa who spars with Urita at the same gym is a boxer with elite talent and skills; his eventual road to the championship is assured. Ogawa is also engaged to Chika Amano. She is a childhood friend of Urita and his first love. Also on hand is Narasaki who comes to train simply to look “cool” but discovers his own talent and passion.”

“Blue” will be screening at Aca Cinema Project: New Films from Japan

Cinema exploring the world of combat sports often chooses one of two paths, either geared towards heavy action sequences capturing the physical prowess of the combatants or drama pieces which examine the personal struggles within the demanding profession. While both of these approaches have their own potential shortcomings, the latter...
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  • 25/2/2022
  • por Adam Symchuk
  • AsianMoviePulse
Film Review: Blue (2021) by Keisuke Yoshida
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“Nobuto Urita is a boxer who loves his sport more than anything. No matter how hard he tries, he keeps losing his matches. Meanwhile, Kazuki Ogawa who spars with Urita at the same gym is a boxer with elite talent and skills; his eventual road to the championship is assured. Ogawa is also engaged to Chika Amano. She is a childhood friend of Urita and his first love. Also on hand is Narasaki who comes to train simply to look “cool” but discovers his own talent and passion.”

“Blue” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival

Cinema exploring the world of combat sports often chooses one of two paths, either geared towards heavy action sequences capturing the physical prowess of the combatants or drama pieces which examine the personal struggles within the demanding profession. While both of these approaches have their own potential shortcomings, the latter is arguably more...
Ver el artículo completo en AsianMoviePulse
  • 21/11/2021
  • por Adam Symchuk
  • AsianMoviePulse
Film Review: Blue (2021) by Keisuke Yoshida
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“Nobuto Urita is a boxer who loves his sport more than anything. No matter how hard he tries, he keeps losing his matches. Meanwhile, Kazuki Ogawa who spars with Urita at the same gym is a boxer with elite talent and skills; his eventual road to the championship is assured. Ogawa is also engaged to Chika Amano. She is a childhood friend of Urita and his first love. Also on hand is Narasaki who comes to train simply to look “cool” but discovers his own talent and passion.”

“Blue” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival

Cinema exploring the world of combat sports often chooses one of two paths, either geared towards heavy action sequences capturing the physical prowess of the combatants or drama pieces which examine the personal struggles within the demanding profession. While both of these approaches have their own potential shortcomings, the latter is arguably more difficult...
Ver el artículo completo en AsianMoviePulse
  • 9/6/2021
  • por Adam Symchuk
  • AsianMoviePulse
El fin de cada tiempo, el principio del mundo (2019)
To The Ends of the Earth Movie Review
El fin de cada tiempo, el principio del mundo (2019)
To The Ends Of The Earth (Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari) Tokyo Theatres Co./ Loaded Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Cast: Atsuko Maeda, Tokio Emoto, Ryô Kase, Adiz Rajabov, Shôta Sometani Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 11/18/20 Opens: December 11, […]

The post To The Ends of the Earth Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.
Ver el artículo completo en ShockYa
  • 6/12/2020
  • por Harvey Karten
  • ShockYa
El fin de cada tiempo, el principio del mundo (2019)
Official US Trailer for Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'To the Ends of the Earth'
El fin de cada tiempo, el principio del mundo (2019)
"It was like a dream." KimStim Films has released an official trailer for the US release of the Japanese indie film To the Ends of the Earth, one of the latest works by prolific Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa. This premiered at the fall festivals last year including Locarno, TIFF, and New York, and is opening in select theaters (starting at the Metrograph) this December. A Japanese woman finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety TV show. It's described as "a brilliant mix of black comedy, travelogue, drama, and adventure-imbued showbiz satire, To the Ends of the Earth—commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan—chronicles the journey of a young woman from displacement to self-discovery." Starring Atsuko Maeda as Yoko, Shôta Sometani, Tokio Emoto, Adiz Rajabov,...
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  • 16/11/2020
  • por Alex Billington
  • firstshowing.net
Film Review: To the Ends of the Earth (2019) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
“To the Ends of the Earth” was jointly commissioned by Japan and Uzbekistan to commemorate the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries, as well as the 70th anniversary of the Navoi Theater in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which was constructed by Japanese prisoners of war after World War II. Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose filmography boasts of various genres but is probably most well-known for his earlier J-horror films like “Cure” and “Pulse”, was hired to write and direct the film.

“To the Ends of the Earth” screened at San Diego Asian Film Festival

Yoko is in Uzbekistan as a reporter to shoot a travel documentary about the country for a variety show, but it’s not going as smoothly as her team or she expects. A rare, almost mythical fish apparently native to a lake there which they want to catch and film won’t bite, the rice in...
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  • 20/11/2019
  • por Rhythm Zaveri
  • AsianMoviePulse
Locarno Review: Atsuko Maeda Shines in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘To the Ends of the Earth’
TV reporter Yoko sits with a member of her crew in the breakfast room of Tashkent’s Uzbekistan Hotel. She’s miles away from her native Tokyo turf, on an assignment that shipped her all the way to the central Asian republic, ostensibly to film a “bramul,” a gigantic fish said to reach up to two meters in length. Except the fish is a most elusive creature, and the trip is turning into a disaster of epic proportions. The look on Yoko’s face has little to do with the failed quest though; her eyes are going grim, her face sending out less light. She tells the cameraman she fears her job is steering her away from what she truly wants to do: sing. The man consoles her (“singing and reporting to an audience aren’t much different”), but she won’t have it. “I feel different. Singing needs emotion,...
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  • 22/8/2019
  • por Leonardo Goi
  • The Film Stage
Working for Tomorrow: An Interview with Nobuhiko Obayashi
Nobuhiko Obayashi's Hanagatami (2017) is showing January 24 – February 22, 2019 exclusively on Mubi as part of the series Direct from Rotterdam.It may be easy to dismiss Nobuhiko Obayashi as a cult horror film director due to the notoriety of his celebrated debut feature, Hausu (1977), but what does not get discussed often enough is Obayashi as a thinker who has always pushed the boundaries of the cinematic medium. He was a central figure in the 1960s Japanese 8mm and 16mm experimental film scene, his pop-star vehicle “idol” films in the 1980s were national sensations, and he continues to make convention-defying movies with his abundant use of green screens in digital cinema. His diverse and prolific filmography spans across genres including horror, crime, comedy, documentary, family dramas, coming-of-age dramas and even animation. Watch Exchange Student (1982) and you'll see that Makoto Shinkai's Your Name (2016) was made decades earlier. Many may know that Obayashi was...
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  • 24/1/2019
  • MUBI
Where they’re from, the birds sing a pretty song. Interview with Sho Miyake and Tasuku Emoto.
Sho Miyake – directed his first feature, ‘Good for nothing’ in 2010. His ‘Playback’ debuted in competition at the 2012 Locarno International Film Festival and won him several directing awards in Japan. The ‘Cockpit’ premiered at the Cinéma du Réel documentary festival. He also directed TV dramas and video artwork. His new film ‘Wild Tour’ will be released in 2019.

Tasuku Emoto – actor who is from a family of prolific and well-respected character actors. His father is actor Akira Emoto, his mother is actress Kazue Tsunogae, his younger brother is actor Tokio Emoto, and his wife is actress Sakura Ando. He began acting as a young teenager and has since played many supporting roles and starred in a wide range of TV dramas and feature films. He was born in Tokyo on 1986 and attended Wako High School. His career began in 2001 while he was still a student. That year he auditioned for and won...
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  • 30/11/2018
  • por Nikodem Karolak
  • AsianMoviePulse
Film Review: Side Job (2017) by Ryuichi Hiroki
It devastated a nation and left billions across the world speechless. Swallowing whole regions deep into the sea, the merciless waters claimed the lives of almost sixteen-thousand men, women, and children and some two-and-a-half thousand souls remain missing to this day. Livelihoods and relationships levelled, lost, and left to ruin. Adding insult to misery came the nuclear fallout, rendering farmlands, villages and whole towns uninhabitable, like the ending of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ghostly “Pulse”; a haunting playground of homes, shops, offices, arcades. These scars are still felt to this day, etched into the faces of those survivors forced to carry on living, trying to find some sense of normality, of happiness. For the characters in Ryuichi Hiroki’s torturous odyssey “Side Job” (‘Kanojo no Jinsei wa Machigai Janai / Her Life Is Not At Fault’), trapped in-situ within their self-loathing, within their numb forlorn shells, the thought of moving on, or going back to before,...
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  • 23/7/2018
  • por Jamie Cansdale
  • AsianMoviePulse
Film Review: Hanagatami (2017) by Nobuhiko Obayashi
If there is a theme that often reappears in Nobuhiko Obayashi’s oeuvre, it is the impact of war. While this theme was already present in his very first full-length feature “House” (1977), which has to read as a symbolic expression of the destruction of the A-bomb, it seems to have become a more urgent matter for him in the last couple of years. “Kono Sora no Hana”, a narrative he directed in 2012, concerned the bombing of Nagaoka, and “No No Nanananoka”, which he made two years later, handled Japan’s wartime responsibility.

With “Hanagatami”, a project Obayashi abandoned 40 years ago to make “House” instead and his third anti-war movie in a row, he once again underlines his personal motivation to carry out the dream and philosophy of the late Akira Kurosawa: to achieve world peace with the power of the cinematographical narrative. This time, by adapting Kazuo Dan’s...
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  • 2/6/2018
  • por Pieter-Jan Van Haecke
  • AsianMoviePulse
Fantasia 2012: If ‘Hard Romanticker’ is in love with anything, its hardcore violence
Hard Romanticker

Directed by Su-yeon Gu

Written by Su-yeon Gu

Japan, 2011

There are not many nations whose film industries carry as much unabashed violence about them than Japan. Some other countries come close, and virtually all countries at least a few violent films, yet when it comes to the Japanese, well, they simply take the cake. On occasion this is due to their reliance on the fantastical, which somehow gives them carte blanche to create the most far-fetched, gory scenarios possible. One need only refer to Takashi Miike’s cult classic Ichi the Killer as a prime example. Other examples are what cinefiles would describe as more ‘hard core.’ These films are based in reality (while not necessarily being completely realistic), thus making the violence a little more discomforting, a little more gut wrenching. Su-yeon Gu’s film, Hard Romantciker, firmly stands in the latter category and has no qualms...
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  • 3/8/2012
  • por Edgar Chaput
  • SoundOnSight
Fantasia 2012: If ‘Hard Romanticker’ is in love with anything, it’s hardcore violence
Hard Romanticker

Directed by Su-yeon Gu

Written by Su-yeon Gu

Japan, 2011

There are not many nations whose film industries carry as much unabashed violence about them than Japan. Some other countries come close, and virtually all countries at least a few violent films, yet when it comes to the Japanese, well, they simply take the cake. On occasion this is due to their reliance on the fantastical, which somehow gives them carte blanche to create the most far-fetched, gory scenarios possible. One need only refer to Takashi Miike’s cult classic Ichi the Killer as a prime example. Other examples are what cinefiles would describe as more ‘hard core.’ These films are based in reality (while not necessarily being completely realistic), thus making the violence a little more discomforting, a little more gut wrenching. Su-yeon Gu’s film, Hard Romanticker, firmly stands in the latter category and has no qualms...
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  • 29/7/2012
  • por Edgar Chaput
  • SoundOnSight
[Nyaff Review] Scabbard Samurai
Sometimes foreign language films simply exist across an insurmountable cultural divide that renders them indecipherable here. Hitoshi Matsumoto‘s Saya-zamurai [Scabbard Samurai] perfectly exemplifies through an obtusely-constructed first third before hitting its stride. Comically uneven at the start, I was left scratching my head and wondering if I was missing the joke. An old, toothless samurai with an empty scabbard breathlessly and wordlessly runs through the Japanese countryside with his young daughter following closely behind as three assassins – introduced in freeze-frame – arrive to inflict what should be mortal wounds. The attacks excise the would-be killer and victim from their backgrounds, placing them on black as bright red spurts forth from the aging relic’s body in slomotion. The samurai wails in pain, the girl heals him with a special herb, and it all happens again.

This prologue quickly instills a fear that the rest will end up a long and arduous journey...
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  • 3/7/2012
  • por jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
  • The Film Stage
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