Koji Yakusho and Arisa Nakano in Perfect DaysPhoto: Cannes Film Festival
In Perfect Days, the camera follows a man as he goes about his morning. Getting up, brushing his teeth, shaving, watering his plants, dressing, going to work. The question on the audience’s mind is, of course, who is he?...
In Perfect Days, the camera follows a man as he goes about his morning. Getting up, brushing his teeth, shaving, watering his plants, dressing, going to work. The question on the audience’s mind is, of course, who is he?...
- 2/7/2024
- by Murtada Elfadl
- avclub.com
Films that resemble stageplays are not exactly an oddity in Japanese cinema, but still remain in the realm of the “underground” for the most part, frequently waiting for a foreign distributor/programmer to take them on, with Third Window having done a good job in the particular aspect in the past. Kyoji Kamui also presents a film in the category, with “7Ways” being a kind of one-man show, as he is also the script writer, the editor and the cinematographer, but also a rather weird one in almost all of its aspects. The movie opened in Ikebukuro Cinema Rosa this June, while it also screened in Osaka later on, in packed screenings.
“7Ways” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
Writer Nao arrives on an isolated island, where she is greeted by the owner of the sole hotel in the area, known as Master. The Master introduces her to stage actor Ginji,...
“7Ways” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
Writer Nao arrives on an isolated island, where she is greeted by the owner of the sole hotel in the area, known as Master. The Master introduces her to stage actor Ginji,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
San Francisco, CA — May, 28th, 2023 — Today, Viz Media, a world-leading producer of manga and anime, announce the anime series, Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, based on the manga by creators Haro Aso and Kotaro Takata will stream on Hulu and Netflix in the U.S.
In the U.S, the series will simulcast on Hulu premiering 2:00Am Pdt, July 9th, 2023, with sunrise details for Netflix and other streaming platforms to come. Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead is a Viz Media co-production alongside Shogakukan and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Japan, with Viz Media representing the anime in the North America, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand territories.
The zombie hordes are coming, so it's time to live your best life! There's nothing quite like the end of the world to inspire your bucket list. In Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Akira Tendo's life has lost its luster.
In the U.S, the series will simulcast on Hulu premiering 2:00Am Pdt, July 9th, 2023, with sunrise details for Netflix and other streaming platforms to come. Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead is a Viz Media co-production alongside Shogakukan and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Japan, with Viz Media representing the anime in the North America, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand territories.
The zombie hordes are coming, so it's time to live your best life! There's nothing quite like the end of the world to inspire your bucket list. In Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Akira Tendo's life has lost its luster.
- 5/30/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
This article contains spoilers for Alice in Borderland season 2.
When the credits rolled on Alice in Borderland’s season 2 finale, fans of the J-horror survivor series were left with a melancholy taste. Did our favorite horde of badass women and wistfully sad men survive? Yes, but likely not in the way that viewers expected – unless they previously read Haro Aso’s manga series.
Sure, Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) and Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya) reunite in Tokyo, but one that’s been decimated by a meteorite crash. We learn that the life-or-death battles we’ve witnessed throughout the show were a purgatory-like test for players. Anyone parkouring off of buildings, dodging arrows, or attempting to outwit rigged explosives was competing with their will to survive in the real world. If they persisted, they’d have a chance to escape this realm and live again.
Given that explanation, the death-by-sky-lasers take on a somber...
When the credits rolled on Alice in Borderland’s season 2 finale, fans of the J-horror survivor series were left with a melancholy taste. Did our favorite horde of badass women and wistfully sad men survive? Yes, but likely not in the way that viewers expected – unless they previously read Haro Aso’s manga series.
Sure, Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) and Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya) reunite in Tokyo, but one that’s been decimated by a meteorite crash. We learn that the life-or-death battles we’ve witnessed throughout the show were a purgatory-like test for players. Anyone parkouring off of buildings, dodging arrows, or attempting to outwit rigged explosives was competing with their will to survive in the real world. If they persisted, they’d have a chance to escape this realm and live again.
Given that explanation, the death-by-sky-lasers take on a somber...
- 1/10/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Zombies had seemingly been done to death in every conceivable media when a zero-budget Japanese film in 2018 proved that there was still creative life in the genre. Titled “One Cut of the Dead,” this heartwarming zombie comedy by Ueda Shinichiro earned 1,000 times its JPY3 million budget at the Japanese box office, while playing at more than 100 festivals around the world.
Now another comic Japanese take on zombies, the anime series “Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead,” has been unveiled by production partners Viz Media, Shogakukan and Shogakukan-Shueisha Production.
Based on a hit manga by writer Aso Haro and illustrator Takata Kotaro, the series is set for release in July of 2023.
But “Zom 100” is no “One Cut” knock off. For one thing, Aso’s idea for the manga, which debuted in the Shogakukan magazine Monthly Sunday Gene-x in October of 2018, predated Ueda’s smash hit. For another, the comic is...
Now another comic Japanese take on zombies, the anime series “Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead,” has been unveiled by production partners Viz Media, Shogakukan and Shogakukan-Shueisha Production.
Based on a hit manga by writer Aso Haro and illustrator Takata Kotaro, the series is set for release in July of 2023.
But “Zom 100” is no “One Cut” knock off. For one thing, Aso’s idea for the manga, which debuted in the Shogakukan magazine Monthly Sunday Gene-x in October of 2018, predated Ueda’s smash hit. For another, the comic is...
- 1/6/2023
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
“Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead,” a zombie comedy anime series, will launch in July this year following a development and production deal between the U.S.’s Viz Media and Japan’s Shogakukan and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions. The story focuses on a salaryman who finds an exciting new side to life while under siege from zombies.
Viz Media will represent the rights to “Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead” in North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. The series will launch in July 2023, and stream on Hulu in the U.S. Other streaming partners will be announced across all territories. A trailer is now available.
The series is an adaptation of the manga by creators Aso Haro and Takata Kotaro, first published by Shogakukan: Monthly Sunday Gene-x in 2018 and is still expanding.
Aso is a top manga creator who is also behind “Alice in Borderland,” a sci-fi-fantasy...
Viz Media will represent the rights to “Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead” in North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. The series will launch in July 2023, and stream on Hulu in the U.S. Other streaming partners will be announced across all territories. A trailer is now available.
The series is an adaptation of the manga by creators Aso Haro and Takata Kotaro, first published by Shogakukan: Monthly Sunday Gene-x in 2018 and is still expanding.
Aso is a top manga creator who is also behind “Alice in Borderland,” a sci-fi-fantasy...
- 1/6/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
A lot of time in “Alice in Borderland” is spent talking about different worlds. There’s the one that its characters find themselves in and the one that they want to return to. The first is a largely-abandoned Tokyo, with only a fraction of its citizens left to roam the streets after being mysteriously transported there. One afternoon, Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) and some friends duck into a bathroom to hide and emerge to find their city almost entirely empty.
In this Netflix show based on Haro Aso’s manga, Arisu is just one of a roughly undefined group of people looking to stay alive in their new alternate reality, where each person staves off death by playing wickedly manipulative games designed to pit players against each other and themselves. Each game corresponds to specific playing card in a deck. The higher the stakes, the longer the reward for making it through to the end.
In this Netflix show based on Haro Aso’s manga, Arisu is just one of a roughly undefined group of people looking to stay alive in their new alternate reality, where each person staves off death by playing wickedly manipulative games designed to pit players against each other and themselves. Each game corresponds to specific playing card in a deck. The higher the stakes, the longer the reward for making it through to the end.
- 12/22/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Interview with Kim Su-jin and Sahel Rosa: We just Want to Coexist With You, Why Don’t You Accept Us?
Kim Sujin (born 1954) and his Shinjuku Ryōzanpaku Theatre Company attest to the variety of styles employed in recent works by resident Korean artists in Japanese literature and theatre. The appearance of his plays and films is connected to the changing identities of resident Koreans, especially since the 1980s. Kim makes use of political theatre performances of the earlier period to magnify and to remake into art the experiences of resident Koreans in Japan. As such, his works mobilize the legacy of his antecedents in Japanese theatre as well as the past experiences of resident Koreans. Instead of enacting an essential Korean ethnicity or culture onstage or through films, Kim inclines toward denoting migration, hybridity and being situated as betwixt and between. By doing so, his works depict the distinct niche occupied by resident Koreans in Japan, which distinguishes them from both the Koreans on the mainland and the Japanese. In cinema,...
- 9/25/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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