By Olivia Popp
Premiering at the Tokyo International Festival and moving to the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, “The Clone Returns Home” is Kanji Nakajima’s virtually unknown grounded sci-fi turned imaginative meditation on memory, life, and what can’t be captured within humankind’s attempt to control life. With Nakajima’s dreamscape and near-fantastical tale of being human, it’s no wonder that the movie easily attracts comparisons to Tarkovsky’s “Solaris.” The Japanese director brings his 2006 Sundance / Nhk International Filmmaker’s Award screenplay to life in this pensive piece with a small cast and a simple premise.
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After an introduction to the world of the film, in which a space agency is experiencing unexpected and unforeseen deaths among its astronauts, the astronaut Kohei Takahara (Mitsuhiro Oikawa) is given the option to prepare materials so that the agency may create...
Premiering at the Tokyo International Festival and moving to the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, “The Clone Returns Home” is Kanji Nakajima’s virtually unknown grounded sci-fi turned imaginative meditation on memory, life, and what can’t be captured within humankind’s attempt to control life. With Nakajima’s dreamscape and near-fantastical tale of being human, it’s no wonder that the movie easily attracts comparisons to Tarkovsky’s “Solaris.” The Japanese director brings his 2006 Sundance / Nhk International Filmmaker’s Award screenplay to life in this pensive piece with a small cast and a simple premise.
on Amazon by clicking on the image below
After an introduction to the world of the film, in which a space agency is experiencing unexpected and unforeseen deaths among its astronauts, the astronaut Kohei Takahara (Mitsuhiro Oikawa) is given the option to prepare materials so that the agency may create...
- 3/7/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Generally you can find plenty of information about your favorite stateside filmmaker, and depending on who they are (see: David Gordon Green), you can find a long list of potential upcoming projects to investigate. But being head-over-heels for a foreign director is a different story -- without the Hollywood system or independent film cliques to generate word of mouth or gossip, you can spend years without hearing a peep from even the biggest festival sweethearts, and only last week were were discussing around the Playlist water cooler where some of our favorite international filmmakers had gone in the last few years.
As we were pondering the status of these auteurs, good news hit the trades: Arnaud Desplechin's adaptation of Georges Devereux's "Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian" found a star in Benicio Del Toro and would be shooting June 18th in Michigan. Titled "Jimmy Picard," Del Toro would play the...
As we were pondering the status of these auteurs, good news hit the trades: Arnaud Desplechin's adaptation of Georges Devereux's "Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian" found a star in Benicio Del Toro and would be shooting June 18th in Michigan. Titled "Jimmy Picard," Del Toro would play the...
- 6/18/2012
- by The Playlist Staff
- The Playlist
Animeigo and Entertainment One will release the Japanese science fiction drama movie The Clone Returns Home on DVD on July 26.
Troubling memories live on in the sci-fi drama The Clone Returns Home.
In the film, an astronaut (Mitsuhiro Oikawa) dies on a mission, but never fear — he’s got a clone, which has been imprinted with his memories. Unfortunately, the clone malfunctions and fixates on a tragic memory from the dead astronaut’s youth. The clone runs away to find answers and solace from his troubling memories, much to the dismay of his wife (Eri Ishida) and the clone manufacturing company.
The winner of the 2006 Sundance Nhk International Filmmaker’s Award, The Clone Returns Home was directed by Kanji Nakajima and produced by Wim Wenders, who was nominated for an Oscar for the documentary Buena Vista Social Club.
This film has picked up a quite a following over the years,...
Troubling memories live on in the sci-fi drama The Clone Returns Home.
In the film, an astronaut (Mitsuhiro Oikawa) dies on a mission, but never fear — he’s got a clone, which has been imprinted with his memories. Unfortunately, the clone malfunctions and fixates on a tragic memory from the dead astronaut’s youth. The clone runs away to find answers and solace from his troubling memories, much to the dismay of his wife (Eri Ishida) and the clone manufacturing company.
The winner of the 2006 Sundance Nhk International Filmmaker’s Award, The Clone Returns Home was directed by Kanji Nakajima and produced by Wim Wenders, who was nominated for an Oscar for the documentary Buena Vista Social Club.
This film has picked up a quite a following over the years,...
- 4/27/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The 2nd edition of the AMÉRASIA Film Festival in Montréal, will be held this coming week (March 3rd to 13th) and will feature some of the Asian best film of late. The festival, launched by Ciné-Asie will screen 22 feature films from over 10 countries and 5 convivial and informative seminars and events.
AmérAsia will open with an acclaimed Asian-Canadian film, One Big Hapa Family by Jeff Chiba Stearns and a panel discussion on “Blending generations – Did you say ‘international marriage?” with invited guests from the public who are in mixed marriages.
Feature presentations will include Academy Award nominee, Water by Deepa Mehta, Harmony starring Yunjin Kim from the popular TV series Lost, Sundance Film Festival nominee Old Partner by Lee Chung-Ryoul, Tribeca Film Festival nominee A Brand New Life by Ounie Lecomte, a moving documentary, Don’t Cry For me, Sudan by Goo Soo-hwan, The Mountain Thief by Gerry Balasta (a gripping...
AmérAsia will open with an acclaimed Asian-Canadian film, One Big Hapa Family by Jeff Chiba Stearns and a panel discussion on “Blending generations – Did you say ‘international marriage?” with invited guests from the public who are in mixed marriages.
Feature presentations will include Academy Award nominee, Water by Deepa Mehta, Harmony starring Yunjin Kim from the popular TV series Lost, Sundance Film Festival nominee Old Partner by Lee Chung-Ryoul, Tribeca Film Festival nominee A Brand New Life by Ounie Lecomte, a moving documentary, Don’t Cry For me, Sudan by Goo Soo-hwan, The Mountain Thief by Gerry Balasta (a gripping...
- 3/3/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
[Just when you thought the onslaught of Year End lists had come to an end here comes another. We welcome Mitch Davis - head of International Programming at Montreal's Fantasia Festival and a very good friend to this site - with his year end wrap up.]
Ignore the grumpy naysayers who groan that 2009 was a weak year for world cinema. Nothing could be further from the truth. Below are my top 11 picks, personal favourites among favourites (a top 30 list would have been unwieldy!). It bears mentioning that at the time of this writing, I've not yet seen The White Ribbon, Mother, Il Divo, Symbol, Vermillion Souls or Accident, to name but a few. In other words, this list, like all lists, is an incomplete snapshot.
11. In The Loop
If there was a funnier film this year, I must have missed it. Subversive, acerbic and gut-wrenchingly hilarious, like Dr Strangelove meets The Office. Incredible.
10. Drag Me To Hell
Sam Raimi's volume-eleven return to the genre is everything much of us had been hoping for: a grossout EC-comic rollercoaster that combines Grand Guignol horror, loopy wide-eyed humour and extreme physical trauma to make an epic of morbidly...
Ignore the grumpy naysayers who groan that 2009 was a weak year for world cinema. Nothing could be further from the truth. Below are my top 11 picks, personal favourites among favourites (a top 30 list would have been unwieldy!). It bears mentioning that at the time of this writing, I've not yet seen The White Ribbon, Mother, Il Divo, Symbol, Vermillion Souls or Accident, to name but a few. In other words, this list, like all lists, is an incomplete snapshot.
11. In The Loop
If there was a funnier film this year, I must have missed it. Subversive, acerbic and gut-wrenchingly hilarious, like Dr Strangelove meets The Office. Incredible.
10. Drag Me To Hell
Sam Raimi's volume-eleven return to the genre is everything much of us had been hoping for: a grossout EC-comic rollercoaster that combines Grand Guignol horror, loopy wide-eyed humour and extreme physical trauma to make an epic of morbidly...
- 1/4/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Yet another Sundance first look to keep everyone happy this weekend. In addition to all of the American films premiering at Sundance, there are a handful of foreign films premiering in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition category. One of them is Japanese sci-fi film called Kurôn wa kokyô o mezasu, which in English translates to The Clone Returns Home. When a young astronaut is killed and his clone is regenerated, problems occur and the new clone escapes the lab to head home. "In the tradition of Solaris and other deeply philosophical science-fiction works, The Clone Returns Home is art cinema at its best." You can check out four photos below. And if you speak Japanese, you can actually see a trailer on the Tiff site. I think this looks intriguing enough to try and catch at Sundance, but I'm still a bit skeptical. Kohei, a young astronaut, agrees to participate...
- 12/27/2008
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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