Based on Koji Suzuki’s “Birthday”, which collects three short stories that fill in details of the story of “Ring”, the third cinematic entry of the original movie trilogy saw a change in the helm, from Hideo Nakata to Norio Tsuruta, which resulted, unfortunately, to the worst part of the series at the time.
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The story takes place 30 years before the events of the first two movies, where Akiko Miyaji, the fiancé of a fellow reporter who was killed during Shizuko’s infamous Esp demonstration, is researching the event and particularly Sadako, by talking to her former teachers and eventually to a psychiatrist who is treating her. In the meantime, 19-year-old Sadako has joined a theatrical troupe as an understudy, as a therapy to her nightmares suggested by her doctor. Her hard work and her undeniable beauty have made her popular with both the director, Yusaku and the sound director,...
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The story takes place 30 years before the events of the first two movies, where Akiko Miyaji, the fiancé of a fellow reporter who was killed during Shizuko’s infamous Esp demonstration, is researching the event and particularly Sadako, by talking to her former teachers and eventually to a psychiatrist who is treating her. In the meantime, 19-year-old Sadako has joined a theatrical troupe as an understudy, as a therapy to her nightmares suggested by her doctor. Her hard work and her undeniable beauty have made her popular with both the director, Yusaku and the sound director,...
- 1/3/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
In the mid-90s, a new filmmaker from Japan would be announced to the world after his experimental films with unique style, although it would not be years after that the director would give his best with his personal masterpiece “Eureka” in 2000 , perhaps his best known film to date in all his filmography. “Wild Life” belongs to the beginning of the director Shinji Aoyama, where he shows us a bizarre story of ex-boxers, yakuzas and Pachinko workers.
Wild Life is screening at doc films
“Wild Life” is about a lonely and apparently quiet person called Hiroki (Kosuke Toyohara). Hiroki is a worker who makes a living working in a pachinko parlor, although years ago he was devoted to professional boxing. His boss, Tsumura (Mickey Curtis), is the owner of that pachinko room, and everything at first looks normal, until the two of them are involved in a yakuza conflict of...
Wild Life is screening at doc films
“Wild Life” is about a lonely and apparently quiet person called Hiroki (Kosuke Toyohara). Hiroki is a worker who makes a living working in a pachinko parlor, although years ago he was devoted to professional boxing. His boss, Tsumura (Mickey Curtis), is the owner of that pachinko room, and everything at first looks normal, until the two of them are involved in a yakuza conflict of...
- 4/17/2019
- by Pedro Morata
- AsianMoviePulse
Jidaigeki (period dramas) films that focus on the lives of women during the Edo period are definitely an exception among the vast number of entries in the field. Masato Harada’s movie is one of these exceptions, in a wonderful production based on the novel “Tokeiji Hanadayori” by Hisashi Inoue.
Kakekomi is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
The story takes place near the ending of the Edo period (1841), during a time when the divorce rate was two times higher than the current one. The local government, in an explosion of conservatism, has issued an austerity law, actually criminalizing a number of forms of arts and entertainment, making the lives of common people even worse. At the same time, since divorce is a concept forbidden, a number of women find solace at a women’s Buddhist temple in Kamakura named Tokei-ji, where, after two years of servitude,...
Kakekomi is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
The story takes place near the ending of the Edo period (1841), during a time when the divorce rate was two times higher than the current one. The local government, in an explosion of conservatism, has issued an austerity law, actually criminalizing a number of forms of arts and entertainment, making the lives of common people even worse. At the same time, since divorce is a concept forbidden, a number of women find solace at a women’s Buddhist temple in Kamakura named Tokei-ji, where, after two years of servitude,...
- 7/3/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Probably one of the most anticipated Japanese films of the year, “Sekigahara” deals with the homonymous battle that took place in 1600, and ended the Warring States era, establishing the Tokugawa shogunate.
Sekigahara is screening at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The movie is split in two parts. The first one narrates the events that brought the Western and the Eastern Army facing each other, and established the two main opponents on a personal level, Mitsunari Ishida, who defended the rights of Hideyori, son of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who wanted the shogunate for himself. Through a number of political movements, treacheries and cunningness, we watch the desperate efforts of the two men to secure as many allies as possible, since the inevitable civil war was looming over the country.
The second part deals with the battle itself, examining the various stages that occurred and the constant change of allies...
Sekigahara is screening at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The movie is split in two parts. The first one narrates the events that brought the Western and the Eastern Army facing each other, and established the two main opponents on a personal level, Mitsunari Ishida, who defended the rights of Hideyori, son of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who wanted the shogunate for himself. Through a number of political movements, treacheries and cunningness, we watch the desperate efforts of the two men to secure as many allies as possible, since the inevitable civil war was looming over the country.
The second part deals with the battle itself, examining the various stages that occurred and the constant change of allies...
- 6/22/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
This great recent Japanese epic is all but unknown here — and is the kind of adult historical show that we seem incapable of these days. The intense diplomatic storm at the end of WW2 with an Army command willing to sacrifice the nation in a national suicide pact, is given an exciting, thoughtful treatment
The Emperor in August
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Twilight Time
2015 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 136 min. / Street Date August 15, 2017 / Nihon no ichiban nagai hi ketteiban / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Shin’ichi Tsutsumi, Tori Matsuzaka, Kikuo Kaneuchi, Misuzu Kanno, Katsumi Kiba.
Cinematography: Takahide Shibanushi
Film Editor: Eugene Harada
Original Music: Harumi Fuki
Based on the novel by Kacutoshi Hando
Produced by Hirotaki Aragaki, Nozumi Enoki
Written and Directed by Masato Harada
How does Twilight Time do it? Every time they offer a foreign title I’ve never heard of, it comes up a winner.
The Emperor in August
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
2015 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 136 min. / Street Date August 15, 2017 / Nihon no ichiban nagai hi ketteiban / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Shin’ichi Tsutsumi, Tori Matsuzaka, Kikuo Kaneuchi, Misuzu Kanno, Katsumi Kiba.
Cinematography: Takahide Shibanushi
Film Editor: Eugene Harada
Original Music: Harumi Fuki
Based on the novel by Kacutoshi Hando
Produced by Hirotaki Aragaki, Nozumi Enoki
Written and Directed by Masato Harada
How does Twilight Time do it? Every time they offer a foreign title I’ve never heard of, it comes up a winner.
- 9/9/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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