The official website for the forthcoming anime feature film Blue Lock: Episode Nagi announced on February 4 that its theme song "Stormy" is performed by Takahiro Nishijima, a member of the popular unit Aaa (Triple A), who has also worked as a solo artist under the name Nissy , and Mitsuhiro Hidaka, who has worked under the name Sky-hi . The CD single is set to release in Japan on April 17, 2024. Nissy said to the fans of the original Blue Rock manga, "I am very happy to be involved in a work that you all love in the form of a theme song. I would be glad if I could be of assistance in helping to make this work more exciting together. I also look forward to seeing the future of Blue Rock with you all." Sky-Hi added, "I believe that this song is the best solution for Blue Lock: Episode Nagi , as its theme song.
- 2/5/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
Yu is a young Christian growing up with his father, Tetsu, who became a fanatical priest after the early death of his wife. Having to confess every single day, Yu has to invent supposed sins to appease his father, who believes it a sin to not have something to confess. When Tetsu finally discovers the truth, Yu decides to commit as many “serious” sins as he can, while searching for a woman to love that fits the Madonna archetype. Eventually he stumbles upon Kaori, and Aya Koike and her gang, while his father has trouble with Kaori Fujiwara, a woman who seems to wish to become a Christian.
A cult epic
In this 4-hour cult epic, Sono incorporates elements of adventure, comedy, drama, social satire, parody, romance and soft porn, while dealing with themes like religion, family, love, sex, adolescence, hedonism and guilt, in one of his most complex works.
A cult epic
In this 4-hour cult epic, Sono incorporates elements of adventure, comedy, drama, social satire, parody, romance and soft porn, while dealing with themes like religion, family, love, sex, adolescence, hedonism and guilt, in one of his most complex works.
- 11/1/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
For 10 years, Five Flavours Film Festival has been presenting the best cinema from Asia, its meanings and contexts. Initially, the Festival focused solely on Vietnamese films, but it evolved to become a yearly review of the cinema of East and Southeast Asia, the only such event in the country.
The 10th edition is held in Warsaw, on November 16-23 (Muranów and Kinoteka cinemas), and in Wrocław on November 18-24 (New Horizons Cinema).
This year’s edition of Five Flavours is the biggest in history – it presents over 40 productions. The program combines artistic and commercial cinema, allowing the audience to experience the best Asian films have to offer. On the one hand, there are the intimate stories with a social angle, on the other – fresh, innovative blockbusters, filled with the sheer joy of cinematic creation, attracting millions of viewers in their homelands.
Three
This diversity is already visible in the choice...
The 10th edition is held in Warsaw, on November 16-23 (Muranów and Kinoteka cinemas), and in Wrocław on November 18-24 (New Horizons Cinema).
This year’s edition of Five Flavours is the biggest in history – it presents over 40 productions. The program combines artistic and commercial cinema, allowing the audience to experience the best Asian films have to offer. On the one hand, there are the intimate stories with a social angle, on the other – fresh, innovative blockbusters, filled with the sheer joy of cinematic creation, attracting millions of viewers in their homelands.
Three
This diversity is already visible in the choice...
- 10/28/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Give It To Me
Love Exposure ( or Ai No Mukidashi ) is a very unique teen love/comedy type flick that centres around 3 characters: Yu, the son of a recently broken-hearted priest obsessed with hearing confession; Koike, the cocaine-dealing-overpriced-religious-artifacts-selling regional leader of a church-like cult named Church Zero; and Yoko, the step-daughter of the woman who dumped the priest, who demolishes houses part-time and tolerates only one man in her life: the notorious singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain.
On a fateful day Yu, master of the mystical Japanese art of Tosatsu ( which is the ability to stealthily take an up-skirt shot of a girl’s panties ) and leader of a 4-man Tosatsu team loses a bet to one of his disciples… The result? Humiliation. Dressed in drag clothes, he must declare his love to a girl he likes! Having searched in vain all his life for his “Maria” Yu, now disguised...
Love Exposure ( or Ai No Mukidashi ) is a very unique teen love/comedy type flick that centres around 3 characters: Yu, the son of a recently broken-hearted priest obsessed with hearing confession; Koike, the cocaine-dealing-overpriced-religious-artifacts-selling regional leader of a church-like cult named Church Zero; and Yoko, the step-daughter of the woman who dumped the priest, who demolishes houses part-time and tolerates only one man in her life: the notorious singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain.
On a fateful day Yu, master of the mystical Japanese art of Tosatsu ( which is the ability to stealthily take an up-skirt shot of a girl’s panties ) and leader of a 4-man Tosatsu team loses a bet to one of his disciples… The result? Humiliation. Dressed in drag clothes, he must declare his love to a girl he likes! Having searched in vain all his life for his “Maria” Yu, now disguised...
- 8/1/2012
- by The0racle
- AsianMoviePulse
Blu-ray Release Date: Sept. 18, 2012
Price: Blu-ray $34.95
Studio: Olive Films
Hikari Mitsushima (l.) and Takahiro Nishijima take it outside in Love Exposure.
The acclaimed 2008 Japanese film Love Exposure offers action, drama and comedy as it takes a look at a pair of emotionally abused young people on the fringes of society.
The movie opens on young Yu (Takahiro Nishijima), who has grown up in a devout Christian family and is desperate to please his sin-obsessed Catholic priest father. That said, Yu is a fairly normal kid who has no legitimate sins to confess. But then he decides to take on sinning big time and becomes a master of up-skirt photography while perfecting the ninja moves required to get just the right angle on his subjects. Things become complicated when our drag-clad hero meets the woman of his dreams, the man-hating Yoko (Hikari Mitsushima), who likes to beat the hell out of men for kicks…...
Price: Blu-ray $34.95
Studio: Olive Films
Hikari Mitsushima (l.) and Takahiro Nishijima take it outside in Love Exposure.
The acclaimed 2008 Japanese film Love Exposure offers action, drama and comedy as it takes a look at a pair of emotionally abused young people on the fringes of society.
The movie opens on young Yu (Takahiro Nishijima), who has grown up in a devout Christian family and is desperate to please his sin-obsessed Catholic priest father. That said, Yu is a fairly normal kid who has no legitimate sins to confess. But then he decides to take on sinning big time and becomes a master of up-skirt photography while perfecting the ninja moves required to get just the right angle on his subjects. Things become complicated when our drag-clad hero meets the woman of his dreams, the man-hating Yoko (Hikari Mitsushima), who likes to beat the hell out of men for kicks…...
- 7/3/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The official website for Masaaki Taniguchi’s upcoming movie Signal: Getsuyobi no Luca has been updated with an embed of its new trailer.
Based on a 2008 novel by Hisashi Sekiguchi, the movie stars Takahiro Nishijima of the pop group Aaa as a college student named Keisuke who takes a summer job at a local movie theater called “Gineikan”. While there, he meets a mysterious young woman named Luca (Azusa Mine) who works as the theater’s projectionist. Following an incident which occurred three years ago, she developed a phobia of being outside and has chosen to permanently shut herself inside Gineikan.
The theater’s owner, Minamikawa (Jun Inoue), makes Keisuke agree to three strange rules before agreeing to hire him: don’t go near Luca on Mondays, don’t fall in love with her, and never ask about her past.
Inevitably, Keisuke breaks one of these rules by falling for his new co-worker,...
Based on a 2008 novel by Hisashi Sekiguchi, the movie stars Takahiro Nishijima of the pop group Aaa as a college student named Keisuke who takes a summer job at a local movie theater called “Gineikan”. While there, he meets a mysterious young woman named Luca (Azusa Mine) who works as the theater’s projectionist. Following an incident which occurred three years ago, she developed a phobia of being outside and has chosen to permanently shut herself inside Gineikan.
The theater’s owner, Minamikawa (Jun Inoue), makes Keisuke agree to three strange rules before agreeing to hire him: don’t go near Luca on Mondays, don’t fall in love with her, and never ask about her past.
Inevitably, Keisuke breaks one of these rules by falling for his new co-worker,...
- 3/16/2012
- Nippon Cinema
We are really excited to announce a few titles coming from Olive Films on home video this fall/winter. First up is 2008 Twitch favorite, Sion Sono's Love Exposure. The film took its sweet time getting a Us release, but let's not make Olive regret picking this one up! Details are below:direct From Its 2011 Theatrical Release"Perverts Prowl and Women's Panties Tremble in Love Exposure, A Tangled, Tumultuous Love Story."The New York TimesLOVE Exposure (2008)A Film by Sion Sonoupc# 887090031509 Cat# OF315 $29.95srpPREBOOK 11/22/11 Street 12/20/11Having grown in a devout Christian family and desperate to please his sin-obsessed Catholic priest father, young Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) a fairly normal kid who has no legitimate sins to confess decides to take on sinning big time and becomes a...
- 10/14/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Release Date: Dec. 20, 2011
Price: DVD $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Hikari Mitsushima (l.) and Takahiro Nishijima take it outside in Love Exposure.
The acclaimed 2008 Japanese film Love Exposure offers action, drama and comedy as it takes a look at a pair of emotionally abused young people on the fringes of society.
The movie opens on young Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) who has grown up in a devout Christian family and is desperate to please his sin-obsessed Catholic priest father. That said, Yu is a fairly normal kid who has no legitimate sins to confess. But then he decides to take on sinning big time and becomes a master of up-skirt photography while perfecting the ninja moves required to get just the right angle on his subjects. Things become complicated when our drag-clad hero meets the woman of his dreams, the man-hating Yoko (Hikari Mitsushima), who likes to beat the hell out of men for kicks…...
Price: DVD $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Hikari Mitsushima (l.) and Takahiro Nishijima take it outside in Love Exposure.
The acclaimed 2008 Japanese film Love Exposure offers action, drama and comedy as it takes a look at a pair of emotionally abused young people on the fringes of society.
The movie opens on young Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) who has grown up in a devout Christian family and is desperate to please his sin-obsessed Catholic priest father. That said, Yu is a fairly normal kid who has no legitimate sins to confess. But then he decides to take on sinning big time and becomes a master of up-skirt photography while perfecting the ninja moves required to get just the right angle on his subjects. Things become complicated when our drag-clad hero meets the woman of his dreams, the man-hating Yoko (Hikari Mitsushima), who likes to beat the hell out of men for kicks…...
- 9/30/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Sion Sono, whose Himizu sees its world premiere in Venice next week before screening in Toronto, wasn't much known outside of Japan "until 2002's Suicide Club, which famously opened with a chorus line of angelic schoolgirls cheerfully leaping into the path of a subway train," writes Dennis Harvey in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. "Since then he's made the first of two projected Suicide sequels, the surreal psychosexual nightmare Strange Circus (2005), and deadly-'do J-horror exercise Exte: Hair Extensions (2007), to name a few. Though not in the Miike league of complete unpredictability (let alone productivity), Sono's films have been a diverse lot, not excluding an exercise or two in straight-ahead naturalism. The mega-dose of Sono that the Roxie offers this month, however, feels like two very large pieces cut from the same pie. Opening Friday is 2008's Love Exposure, clocking just under four hours (not counting intermission); next up is 2010's Cold Fish (starting Sept.
- 9/2/2011
- MUBI
Amazing is perhaps the best word to describe Sion Sono's Love Exposure. It is low in budget but massive in scale, so crammed full of different ideas and elements that its running time of 4 hours actually does not feel too long. Comedy, drama, action and even social commentary are all thrown in to create a masterpiece that truly defies genre categorization. At the heart of the movie is a love story, one that involves a twisted love triangle. Yu (Takahiro Nishijima), Yoko (Hikari Mitsushima) and Koike (Sakura Ando) are young people from three dysfunctional families. Through a series of bizarre events, they come together and become caught up in a complex web of love and lust, disguise and deceit, religion and guilt. More...
- 8/18/2011
- Screen Anarchy
With the insane awesomeness of Fantastic Fest 2009 only a day away, our very own Don Simpson has screened some of the films that will be featured, and provided reviews for both. First up is a UK film based on a true story and described by many as "A Clockwork Orange-esque", Bronson: Hardy’s transcendental performance is reason enough to see Bronson – there are few performances will ever top this one. The real Michael Peterson should be proud. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, Bronson can be read as a scathing indictment of celebrity culture and glorification of violence in the media; or perhaps a critique of the prison system’s inability to rehabilitate criminals; or maybe an example of how a downtrodden economy makes some people want to go to prison for free room and board…(Read More) Next is the Japnesse film that recently took the 2009 Berlin Film...
- 9/23/2009
- by Dave Campbell
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Director: Shion Sono Writer(s): Shion Sono Starring: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Ando, Makiko Watanabe, Atsuro Watabe Clocking in just shy of four hours, Love Exposure spends an obscene quantity of time building the back-story of the film’s protagonist, Yu (Takahiro Nishijima)…and gratuitously focusing on panty shots…but I’ll get back to that later. Yu’s mother dies while he is just a child. Before she dies, Yu’s mother gives him a statue of the Virgin Mary. Yu’s father becomes a Catholic priest, but then his fancy is tickled by another woman. Overburdened by the guilt of his own actions, Yu’s father forces Yu to confess on a daily basis. Yu’s dilemma is that he is a good person with little or nothing to confess. At first he makes up sins, but his father sees right through him; so Yu is...
- 9/23/2009
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
The dust hasn’t settled from his latest film Ai no Mukidashi/Love Exposure, the four opus featuring a sneak photography king of high school students, a girl named Yoko and a mysterious religious cult, and director Sion Sono is already working on his next film and cast the lead. Once again he is tapping into the world of J-Pop and he has cast Akira from Exile. I don’t pretend to know my popular Japanese music so I won’t try to feign excitement or familiarity. But as I said this isn’t the first time Sion has used a member of a music group. Takahiro Nishijima from the band Aaa was cast in Ai no Mukidashi/Love Exposure
I do find the premise of this film very interesting coming from a family that has had a long history with cancer. The story in Chichi to Ko no Kizuna...
I do find the premise of this film very interesting coming from a family that has had a long history with cancer. The story in Chichi to Ko no Kizuna...
- 1/17/2009
- by Mack
- Screen Anarchy
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