Japanese filmmakers are certainly consistent. If you love horror movies set inside schools, then you’re going to be on cloud nine. Director Masafumi Yamada’s “Toire no Hanako-san: Shin Gekijoban” tells the story of a group of schoolgirls who are terrorized by an evil spirit. It’s not original, but then again, why mess with a winning formula. The movie is based on the 90s horror flicks centered around the Hanako-san urban legend. Newcomer Yuuka Ueno beat out 10,000 other contestants in the “Dream Vocal Audition” competition to win this role. She also sung the theme song, which, I believe, is featured at the beginning of the embedded trailer. Just don’t hold me to that, okay? Thanks. Here’s what you can expect from the plot: The story of Hanako San (literal translation Hanako toilet) revolves around the urban legend about the spirit of a young — World War II...
- 6/13/2013
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
It's been a newsy day. We lost Tonino Guerra and Ulu Grosbard, the Hong Kong and New Directors/New Films festivals have opened, Takashi Miike has yet another film on the way and Casablanca, celebrating its 70th, is playing coast to coast. It's also been a fine day for posters, so I'm pepping up today's Briefing with a few for festivals and events happening soon or already ongoing. Kevin Tong designed the one above for the three films that Edgar Wright will be on hand to present at the opening of the Alamo Drafthouse on Slaughter Lane in Austin this weekend.
The lineup and schedule for Ebertfest 2012, running April 25 through 29, has been set and Roger Ebert discusses each of the titles in his Journal. Among the highlights: David Bordwell will lead a discussion of Citizen Kane, Patton Oswalt will host a session on Kind Hearts and Coronets and it looks...
The lineup and schedule for Ebertfest 2012, running April 25 through 29, has been set and Roger Ebert discusses each of the titles in his Journal. Among the highlights: David Bordwell will lead a discussion of Citizen Kane, Patton Oswalt will host a session on Kind Hearts and Coronets and it looks...
- 3/21/2012
- MUBI
The official website for Masafumi Yamada’s upcoming movie X Game 2 has been updated with a YouTube embed of its new trailer.
The movie is a sequel to 2010’s X Game, a live-action adaptation of a popular novel by Yusuke Yamada.
In the first movie, an adult used a sadistic “punishment game” as revenge for his own experience being bullied at a young age.
The sequel stars Aika Ohta of the pop idol group AKB48 as Misuzu Saeki, a student who gets trapped in a classroom along with nail stylist Yuko Hagiwara (Natsumi Hirajima) and three others. Soon, a monitor appears and a “lesson” begins which forces them to begin solving exam problems at the risk of severe physical punishment.
Meanwhile, as rumors begin to spread of an organization enacting vengeance for victims of bullying, a reporter for a weekly magazine (Ryoichi Yuki) begins an investigation.
X Game 2 will be...
The movie is a sequel to 2010’s X Game, a live-action adaptation of a popular novel by Yusuke Yamada.
In the first movie, an adult used a sadistic “punishment game” as revenge for his own experience being bullied at a young age.
The sequel stars Aika Ohta of the pop idol group AKB48 as Misuzu Saeki, a student who gets trapped in a classroom along with nail stylist Yuko Hagiwara (Natsumi Hirajima) and three others. Soon, a monitor appears and a “lesson” begins which forces them to begin solving exam problems at the risk of severe physical punishment.
Meanwhile, as rumors begin to spread of an organization enacting vengeance for victims of bullying, a reporter for a weekly magazine (Ryoichi Yuki) begins an investigation.
X Game 2 will be...
- 3/3/2012
- Nippon Cinema
"America Lost & Found: The Bbs Story" (1968-1972)
Released by Criterion Collection
A set of seven films that's as diverse and wild as the era in which they were born, Criterion's reassembly of Bbs Studios' run from 1968 through 1972 boasts influential hits like "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces" and "King of Marvin Gardens" and obscurities like Jack Nicholson's directorial debut "Drive, He Said" and Henry Jaglom's "A Safe Place" that have never been on DVD before. New interviews, vintage documentaries and much more from directors Bob Rafelson, Peter Bogdanovich (whose "Last Picture Show" is also included), Nicholson and the late Dennis Hopper highlight a collection that doubles as a history of when there was a changing of the guard in American cinema.
"Countdown to Zero" (2010)
Directed by Lucy Walker
Released by Magnolia Home Entertainment
This "scareumentary," as our own Alison Willmore termed it in her review, reunites Participant Media and...
Released by Criterion Collection
A set of seven films that's as diverse and wild as the era in which they were born, Criterion's reassembly of Bbs Studios' run from 1968 through 1972 boasts influential hits like "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces" and "King of Marvin Gardens" and obscurities like Jack Nicholson's directorial debut "Drive, He Said" and Henry Jaglom's "A Safe Place" that have never been on DVD before. New interviews, vintage documentaries and much more from directors Bob Rafelson, Peter Bogdanovich (whose "Last Picture Show" is also included), Nicholson and the late Dennis Hopper highlight a collection that doubles as a history of when there was a changing of the guard in American cinema.
"Countdown to Zero" (2010)
Directed by Lucy Walker
Released by Magnolia Home Entertainment
This "scareumentary," as our own Alison Willmore termed it in her review, reunites Participant Media and...
- 11/23/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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