Father Geek here with longtime Asia-AICN reporter pigmon and the latest from Japan... buuuuuut first I have this for you by way of Vienna, Austria...
Hello, Stauffen here.
I made a list of Japan's upcoming cinema highlights. Maybe you're interested in it.
Let's start with something that will kick some ass for sure: SKYHIGH - THE MOVIE. Directed by the great Ryuhei Kitamura himself. The trailer looks really great. Check it out at This Cool Spot...
Japan-Release: 8/11
The next one is a movie called ROBOCON. The trailer reminds me a bit of PING PONG, which I love by the way.
Here is the official page: Just Click Here To See More...
Japan-Release: 9/13
This one looks like an erotic-psycho-thriller-something and is called G@ME.
Director is Isaka Satoshi (Focus, Mr. Rookie) Cast: Naohito Fujiki (GTO, DRAGONHEAD), Yukie Nakama (TRICK) and Ryo Ishibashi (SUICIDE CIRCLE, AUDITION). I heard it's a kidnapping-story.
Official page: Is Right Here...
Japan-Release: 11/8
The last one is by Mr. Sogo Ishii! DEAD END RUN. The movie is starring Tadanobu Asano and Masatoshi Nagase. Both were in ELECTRIC DRAGON 80.000V. The soundtrack will feature songs by Tadanobu Asano's band Mach 1.67.
Find Out More By Clicking Here...
Japan-Release: September 2003
Sorry for my poor English!
Greetings from Vienna/Austria... Stauffen
Father Geek back, now here's pigmon with his regular weekly report...
NEWS
* The Hiroshima newspaper reported yesterday that Scott Ross of Digital Domain.inc is
planning to shoot the film, "A Thousand Cranes" there. It is about a tragic love story between a Japanese
woman from Hiroshima and an American spy during the time period from early June to August in 1945. Of
course it will feature the near total distruction of Hiroshima city by atomic bomb on Aug. 8th of that year. Digital
Domain will serve up the very graphic VFX. Script is already completed which was written by Mr.Ross. He will
be the producer of this film also and starts looking for the director and main
actors this week. The budget will be in the $100 million range.
* Aya Ueto("Azumi")'s next picture will be "Install" which is about a 17 year
old girl who is an adult only chat room's hostess. She becomes a friend of
elementaly school students and earn lots of money from this business. Director
will be K Kataoka who is a very famous "made for TV" director.
* "Juon" rules Korea! Over 1 million people has seen this Japanese horror
movie.
This is the record of Japanese movie shown in Korea. "Juon 2" will open there later
on this month which is same as in Japan. "Juon" also becomes smash hit in Hong
Kong and Singapore.
* "Bayside Shake Down 2" becomes fastest to reach over 500 million people in
box office. "The Matrix:Reloaded" took 22 days to reach this number, but "Bayside
Shake Down2" took only 20 days to make new record. Over 200 manufactured goods
sell well, especially "The Bayside Ramen"(noodle soup) sold out every store
now. "Bayside Shake Down 2" will be showing most of Asian countries later this
year.
SHORT REVIEWS
* "Juon 2"(Xanadu&Tokyo Teatre) directed by Takashi Shimizu
Yes, beleive it or not, this sequel is much more scary than the 1st one. This time, the actress Kyoko(Noriko
Sakai) reports on "that spooky house" for a popular TV show, and she experiences very unusal life altering events
after visitng this house... Her fiance gets in a bad traffic accident, she looses her
baby, her friends commit sucides, and so on. I gurantee that you will bite your nails down to their quik during
every single spooky scene.
www.juon2.jp
* "Dragon Head" (Toho)directed by Jyoji Iida
This is typical movie for the Good VFX No Drama genre movie. Movie starts when a high
school boy starts waking up at the scene of a bullet train accident in a tunnel. He finds another 2
survivors and the 3 get out of tunnel.
They see that all the natural surroundings and the city are destroyed. What's happend to the
world? They start walking ahead toward Tokyo. When they finally arrive Tokyo, totally is
destoryed. They finally see the unexpected enemey....nature. Totally this movie has
been shot in Uzbekistan. Set and VFX are stunning. Some of the scenes are much better
than "Armagedon", but the story is so weak and acting is at so amature a level that it makes this
movie so dull, but pretty.
www.dragonhead-movie.jp
BOXOFFICE
So Here Are the Leaders this Week...
- 1(2) Bayside Shakedown2(Toho)
- 2(1) Pirates of Caribbean(Buena Vista)
- 3(3)Terminator 3:Rise of The Machines(Toho-Towa)
- 4(5)Pocket Monster:Advance Generation(Toho)
- 5(6)The Matrix Reloaded(Warner)
See ya at the movies!
Coolpigmon@aol.com
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