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“The Violinist,” Ervin Han and Raul Garcia’s animated feature set against the backdrop of colonial Singapore and the turmoil of WW2, has been boarded by France TV Distribution ahead of Cannes market.

Scored by Singaporean-American composer Ricky Ho, “The Violinist” boasts a voice cast led by Kheng Hua Tan (“The Tiger’s Apprentice,” “Crazy Rich Asians”), Kazuya Tanabe (“Tokyo Vice”), Adrian Pang, Ayden Sng and Fang Rong.

Han penned the script with Jordan K. See. France TV Distribution is handling international sales worldwide, expect in Singapore, Malaysia and Spain, and will unveil the project to buyers at Cannes.

Opening in the 1930s British-colonial Singapore, the feature tells the story of young Fei and a gifted orphan boy, Kai, who dream of becoming world-class violinists. But when war descends upon Southeast Asia in 1941, Kai joins the resistance and disappears after the war. Refusing to accept his loss, Fei devotes herself tirelessly to becoming a soloist,...

[This story contains spoilers from season two, episode eight of Tokyo Vice, “The Noble Path.”]

In many ways, the eighth episode in the second season of Max’s Tokyo Vice could be an extension of the prior episode. And it sets the audience up for the final two installments that promise to be a violent conclusion on power, corruption, loyalty, truth and betrayal within the underside of Japanese culture, the organized crime syndicate known as the yakuza.

But toward the end of this latest hour, viewers may feel some déjà vu from the series premiere, as the events circle around to where the series began. Jake Adelstein (played by Ansel Elgort), the aggressive American journalist who writes for Tokyo’s largest daily newspaper, and Japanese Organized Crime Division Detective Hiroto Katagiri (Ken Watanabe) have their lives threatened by Yabuki (Kazuya Tanabe), the enforcer of Shinzo Tozawa (Ayumi Tanida), who has risen to be the most powerful and deadliest of all the yakuza crime lords.

The Max potboiler Tokyo Vice is finally back February 8 for a second season of warring gangs, comely lounge hostesses, and Ansel Elgort speaking perfect Japanese. Here, executive producer Alan Poul addresses the delay between seasons, what big story Jake Adelstein plans to work on next, and whether Tozawa’s facial spider veins will get any worse this year.

Deadline: The series last aired in 2022. Why has it taken so long for season 2 to begin?

Alan Poul: it was due to a lot of things. Remember, the first season was shot in the middle of Covid. Just when the show was airing, Warner Brothers Discovery was going through a reshuffling. Nobody wants to make a lot of decisions while everybody’s still figuring out how the chips are going to fall. So all the pickups were put on hold until the new landscape was more clear. So we aired in...

Kate Trailer — Cedric Nicolas-Troyan‘s Kate (2021) movie trailer has been released by Netflix. The Kate trailer stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Woody Harrelson, Miku Martineau, Tadanobu Asano, Jun Kunimura, Miyavi, Kazuya Tanabe, and Michiel Huisman. Crew Umair Aleem wrote the screenplay for Kate. Nathan Barr created the music for the film. Lyle Vincent crafted [...]

Continue reading: Kate (2021) Movie Trailer: Poisoned Assassin Mary Elizabeth Winstead searches for Revenge in her Last 24 Hours...

Netflix continues its new-found love for action movies with a new trailer for the upcoming revenge thriller, Kate. While not much footage from the movie has been revealed until now, the marketing so far has already had action movie fans talking, with many comparing lead star Mary Elizabeth Winstead to other female action movie icons such as Ripley and Sarah Connor. Comparisons which the new trailer certainly helps cement.

Kate stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the titular character, Kate, an assassin whose world is thrown into disarray when she discovers she has just hours left to live. After finding out that she has been irreversibly poisoned, the ruthless criminal operative known as Kate has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims. With such a short space of time to enact her vengeance,...

Fans are loving Mary Elizabeth Winstead as an assassin in the upcoming Netflix action-thriller Kate after a first look at the actress in the role was revealed. Over at Entertainment Weekly, three new photos from the anticipated movie were published on Friday. The photos, which have also been shared by Netflix Geeked on Twitter, are quickly getting a lot of fans pretty stoked to see the movie, judging by the reactions. You can see the pictures below.

After she’s poisoned, an assassin has less than 24 hours to save herself and exact revenge on her enemies in one last self-appointed job.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is Kate.

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— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) May 14, 2021

People can't wait to see the movie after seeing the first look images. Critic Courtney Howard writes: "I am Here for Mary Elizabeth Winstead in #Netflix's #Kate, a neon-lit...

[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “The Terror: Infamy” Episode 5, “Shatters Like a Pearl.”]

On “The Terror: Infamy,” everyone thinks they know how to identify the enemy. For the American military, it’s anyone of Japanese descent, but more specifically, those who answer “no” to two key questions on a loyalty questionnaire. For Chester Nakayama (Derek Mio), it’s the Japanese who are at war with America and the yurei who has been haunting him.

On Monday’s episode, Chester is stationed at Guadacanal, translating Japanese and breaking codes for the American military. “His whole motivation for going over there was not just to prove his loyalty like [his father] says to do at the end of Episode 1, but Chester’s thinking that he’s going to draw this thing away from his girlfriend and his family,” Mio told IndieWire.

Chester feels he can make a big difference when a Japanese Pow is brought in for questioning and pays more attention to Chester than his superior officer.