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AICN-Japan: Battlefield Stadium; Umizaru; Cosmic Rescue; Zebra Man; Cutie Honey; Ying Xiong; The Hulk
Father Geek here with pigmon's regular weekly report from Japan...
Here is this week's report...
NEWS
NEWS
*It is busy week for Japan Premiere movies. Salma Hayek shows up for "Frida"
premire on the 14th.
Ang Lee appears at "The Hulk" Japanese Premiere in front of a 6000 member audience on the
15th. Finally Jet Lee, Ziyi Zhang and director Yimor Zhang are invited to the Japanese
Premiere of "Ying Xiong(Hero)".
I also attend all these press conferences, but there are nothing new to report from them.
*At the "Cutie Honey" press conference.
Director Hideaki Anno introduces Eriko Sato who plays Cutie Honey. Annnnd tells us that when she transforms from office girl to Cutie Honey in the comic, she is totally
nude. What will Anno do this live action movie? He just says to press,"You can
expect...". Also she will change her costume about 30 times . Shooting already has
begun last week.
*There will be cameo appearenced by an old Toho monster on "Godzilla X
Mothra X Mecha Godzilla,Tokyo SOS". I will find out which one soon.
*Takashi Miike's new film,"Zebra Man" starts shooting this week.This is not
going to be another Yakuza movie,it will SF/Action movie. An elemetary teacher
fights against space aliens.Shou Aikawa will play protagonist who transforms
to Ultraman type super hero. Miike promises to the press,"I am not going to use
any CGI".
*Chinese actress, Li Gong will be the head of judge on competition at 16th
Tokyo International Film Festival on Nobember. Yoshimitsu Morita's new film
"Ashura no gotoku" will be the opening movie and Pixar's "Finding Nemo" closes the
film festival. Takashi Miike's "You've got a call" will have its world primere at this
festival.
*"Cosmic Rescue" is new Japanese made Imax movie.It features full of VFX but
kids group V6's acting is terrible.This movie will be shown at Comic
Convention in San Diego(July 17th to 20th)and Tronto Film Festival(September 4th to
13th).
*"Umizaru" is new film from Toho co. which is based on popular comic.It is
about life of 14 divers at the ocean military.Eichiro Hazumi is first time
director but has been working with director Katsuyuki Motohiro whose new film
"Bayside Shakedown 2" will be at the theaters
this weekend.
SHORT REVIEW
*"Battlefield Stadium"(Klockworx) directed by Yudai Kato,produced by Ryuhei
Kitamura
Yudai who is the right hand man of Ryuhei Kitamura. He worked as 2nd unit director for
"Versus" and "Alive". He chooses as his first feature film ,"Battlefield
Stadium" which is based on a popular comic. It is story about 2 high school baseball
teams who fight each other on the ground. Do not expect usual baseball game,they are
just killing each other. Especially the Gedo high school baseball team which look like
Zombies(head of guy looks like Jim Carey's Mask). Just imagine, this is a baseball
version of "Sholin Soccer". This movie received Yubari International Funtastic
Film Festival 2003 Grand Prix Award. "Battlefield Stadium" is a little funny baseball
battle movie.
www.Klockworx.com/Jigoku
BOXOFFICE
Terminator rules Japan again. Biggest surprise is "Battle Royale 2" comes in
strongly at 3rd place last week, but it already starts dropping to 5th.Here are the winners
That's all for this week.
See ya at the movies!
Coolpigmon@aol.com
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i mean, Jennifer Connely? she's like, megastar in japan, and with that akira style ending, they are gonna eat this up...
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Jul 21, 2003 3:04:57 AM CDT
The monster making a cameo in the next Godzilla movie is...
by thefoywonder
KAMEBA - the giant turtle that appeared in the movie YOG, MONSTRER FROM SPACE. Reportedly it will just be shown dead on the beach, a victim of Godzilla. I've heard its meant to be Toho taking a shot at Gamera. If Toho really wants to take a shot at Gamera they'd actually make a new Godzilla movie that's on par with the new Gamera trilogy. Unfortunately, Toho's mentality pretty much guarantees that won't happen anytime soon.
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Whaadaya mean man? Toho even went to the man who made that trilogy to one-up himself!! Or have you not seen GMK.........
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I'm a reasonably well educated guy, I've spent some time in Asia, and I love me some Asian cinema, but I still can't keep the first and last names straight. Does anyone have a handy guide that goes beyond "You're an idiot"?
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Yes, Toho hired Kaneko to make a Godzilla movie. They also didn't allow him to have the creative freedom he had when making the Gamera movies. GMK, Kaneko didn't want the "M" or the "K" in his movie but Toho insisted on having Mothra and King Ghidorah in the movie because they are considered "more marketable" than Kaneko's choices of Anguilas and Varan. One of the things that hurts GMK are the new origins for Mothra and Ghidorah as they clearly come across as being shoehorned into roles not originally meant for them. Also, Kanenko was given a year to put GAMERA 3 together but Toho, who insist on having a rush job in theaters for the holiday season, gave him a timeframe of beginning shooting in April and having it finished in time for the Tokyo Film Festival in November. So while the FX in GMK are the best in a Godzilla movie they are still not on par with G3. Sad truth: Toho is just as bad as most Hollywood studios.
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Jul 21, 2003 10:21:13 AM CDT
I'd be so embarrased if I was ANG LEE showing my film HULK.
by theginger twit
I really would.
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Godzilla would still whoop Gamera's ass!
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Traditionally, it's family name first, given name last, as opposed to the Western convention of given name first, family name last.
Unfortunately when it comes to Westerners writing this stuff, or writing this stuff in English/Western-style, the choice of which name order style to follow is up to the writer. In pigmon's article, they chose to write it Western-style.
It takes a little experience and exposure, but eventually one gains a sense of which names sound more like given names (Eriko, Hideaki, Ryuhei, Eichiro), and which are more like family names (Sato, Kitamura, etc.)--although there are names that can be either one. Korean names (given names typically have two syllables, family names just one) are a little easier to decipher. -
If we could agree on a standard order in the U.S., it would be a little easier. I've never heard that tip about Korean names before; I'll keep it in mind. For the rest, I'll just keep on slugging. Thanks again.
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Well for any of you Miike fans out there be sure and see his movie "Gozu"... the last 10 minutes have to be seen to be believed.
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1. Giant monsters. 2. They`re not retarded like The Americans. BOOM!
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