“It’s bad for your health thinking about revenge and killing all the time.”
Japanese director Hiroyuki Nakano had directed several music videos for artists like Tomoyasu Hotei (who also plays the part of the villain in “Samurai Fiction”), Dee-Lite and Bjork but had always wanted to make a feature film. During the shooting of a music video for drum and bass artist Photok, Nakano was reminded of the great samurai Musashi Miyamoto, who has developed his famous two sword-technique observing drummers during a village celebration. With the additional inspiration from the works of Shugoro Yamamoto, whose work had also inspired the film by Akira Kurosawa, Nakano slowly developed the idea for a modern samurai film, which would blend the ideas the samurai and the times they lived in stood for but which would also use a modern sensibility, music, editing and use of camera.
The second...
Japanese director Hiroyuki Nakano had directed several music videos for artists like Tomoyasu Hotei (who also plays the part of the villain in “Samurai Fiction”), Dee-Lite and Bjork but had always wanted to make a feature film. During the shooting of a music video for drum and bass artist Photok, Nakano was reminded of the great samurai Musashi Miyamoto, who has developed his famous two sword-technique observing drummers during a village celebration. With the additional inspiration from the works of Shugoro Yamamoto, whose work had also inspired the film by Akira Kurosawa, Nakano slowly developed the idea for a modern samurai film, which would blend the ideas the samurai and the times they lived in stood for but which would also use a modern sensibility, music, editing and use of camera.
The second...
- 11/25/2018
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
It has been announced that director Takashi Shimizu’s Tormented will be released in the Us on Blu-ray and DVD this April:
Plano, Texas. (February 22, 2013) – From the legendary director of The Grudge, Takashi Shimizu takes an unflinching look into childhood fears, the ties that hold a family together, and bloody secrets that won’t stay dead when Tormented debuts on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital April 2nd from Well Go USA Entertainment. Filled with his trademark atmospherics and spine-chilling, brain-bending sequences, Shimizu ventures into the terrifying corners of the mind where the lines between fact and fiction are blurred in this terrifying tale of a young boy whose family seems to be unraveling around him. The situation gets worse when he manifests a growing and dangerous friendship and reliance on a stuffed toy rabbit that comes to life…
The film stars Hikari Mitsushima (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai), Takeru Shibuya, Tamaki Ogawa...
Plano, Texas. (February 22, 2013) – From the legendary director of The Grudge, Takashi Shimizu takes an unflinching look into childhood fears, the ties that hold a family together, and bloody secrets that won’t stay dead when Tormented debuts on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital April 2nd from Well Go USA Entertainment. Filled with his trademark atmospherics and spine-chilling, brain-bending sequences, Shimizu ventures into the terrifying corners of the mind where the lines between fact and fiction are blurred in this terrifying tale of a young boy whose family seems to be unraveling around him. The situation gets worse when he manifests a growing and dangerous friendship and reliance on a stuffed toy rabbit that comes to life…
The film stars Hikari Mitsushima (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai), Takeru Shibuya, Tamaki Ogawa...
- 2/22/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Takashi Shimizu takes an unflinching look into childhood fears, the ties that hold a family together, and bloody secrets that won't stay dead when Tormented debuts on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital April 2nd from Well Go USA Entertainment.
The film stars Hikari Mitsushima, Takeru Shibuya, Tamaki Ogawa, Nao Omori, Teruyuki Kagawa and Momoko Tanabe.
Takashi Shimizu took home the Silver Raven for the film’s originality and unique view of childhood through a child’s eyes at the 2012 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film.
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The film stars Hikari Mitsushima, Takeru Shibuya, Tamaki Ogawa, Nao Omori, Teruyuki Kagawa and Momoko Tanabe.
Takashi Shimizu took home the Silver Raven for the film’s originality and unique view of childhood through a child’s eyes at the 2012 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film.
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- 2/22/2013
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Given how sucky 3D movies have been lately (I'm looking at You, Silent Hill: Revelation), we need something fresh to liven up the three-dimensional scene, and this new flick from the man behind The Grudge could do the trick!
From the Press Release
The legendary director of The Grudge, Takashi Shimizu, takes an unflinching look into childhood fears, the ties that hold a family together, and bloody secrets that won't stay dead when Tormented debuts on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital April 2nd from Well Go USA Entertainment. Filled with his trademark atmospherics and spine-chilling, brain-bending sequences, Tormented ventures into the terrifying corners of the mind where the lines between fact and fiction are blurred in this terrifying tale of a young boy whose family seems to be unraveling around him. The situation gets worse when he manifests a growing and dangerous friendship and reliance on a stuffed toy rabbit that comes to life.
From the Press Release
The legendary director of The Grudge, Takashi Shimizu, takes an unflinching look into childhood fears, the ties that hold a family together, and bloody secrets that won't stay dead when Tormented debuts on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital April 2nd from Well Go USA Entertainment. Filled with his trademark atmospherics and spine-chilling, brain-bending sequences, Tormented ventures into the terrifying corners of the mind where the lines between fact and fiction are blurred in this terrifying tale of a young boy whose family seems to be unraveling around him. The situation gets worse when he manifests a growing and dangerous friendship and reliance on a stuffed toy rabbit that comes to life.
- 2/22/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The line-up of the 68th Venice International Film Festival, which runs August 31st to September 10th, 2011, has been announced; and as usual, we were pleased to see a few genre films included. Read on for the details.
Films of primary interest to our readers are listed below; visit the official Venice International Film Festival website for the full rundown. The daily schedule of screenings will be announced after August 15th.
Venezia 68 - International competition of feature films, presented as world premieres
Ami Canaan Mann - Texas Killing Fields - USA
Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jeffrey Dean Morgan Abel Ferrara - 4:44 Last Day On Earth - USA
Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Paz de la Huerta, Natasha Lyonne Aleksander Sokurov - Faust - Russia
Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinskiy, Isolda Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla
Out of Competition
Mary Harron - The Moth Diaries - Canada, Ireland
Sarah Bolger, Sarah Gadon,...
Films of primary interest to our readers are listed below; visit the official Venice International Film Festival website for the full rundown. The daily schedule of screenings will be announced after August 15th.
Venezia 68 - International competition of feature films, presented as world premieres
Ami Canaan Mann - Texas Killing Fields - USA
Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jeffrey Dean Morgan Abel Ferrara - 4:44 Last Day On Earth - USA
Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Paz de la Huerta, Natasha Lyonne Aleksander Sokurov - Faust - Russia
Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinskiy, Isolda Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla
Out of Competition
Mary Harron - The Moth Diaries - Canada, Ireland
Sarah Bolger, Sarah Gadon,...
- 7/28/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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