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Takeshi Kitano's new yakuza film has a title and a still. Woot!
2 December 2009 2:04 PM, PST
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The news that Takeshi Kitano was returning to Yakuza films was met with decent reactions from his many fans around the world. For many of us films like Sonatine, Fireworks and Boiling Point were the films that introduced us to this filmmaker. Then opinions and feelings changed as Kitano underwent a personal genesis of sorts with his latest trilogy of films: Takeshis', Glory to the Filmmaker! and Achilles and the Tortoise. I won't say it is good to have him back because every filmmaker has a right to take whatever personal and professional path they choose. And who knows if this new film would live up to our expectations, from those of us who are devoted fans of his Yakuza films. Brother anyone? Shudder.
I digress. The new film will be titled Outrage and yesterday the first still was released. Now as far as stills go it is nothing to get excited about.
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Takeshi Kitano Returns To His Yakuza Roots
2 December 2009 4:29 AM, PST
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Variety have reported that Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano, after a nine year break, is returning to the series of films that made him a star in the west. Not since Brother (2000) has Kitano picked up a gun and killed lots of people whilst remaining as cool as a cucumber. It is this zen-like approach that saw films such as Fireworks, Boiling Point and his masterpiece – Sonatine – praised by western film critics. He is a living legend in Japan.
Many people may remember Kitano has the no-nonsense school teacher in Battle Royale. Or even the Japanese television show – Takeshi’s Castle (if you’ve got Bravo).
Now Kitano is back! Starring in co-production between Warner Bros. and his own company. Entitled Outrage, the film is described as “a power struggle between two Tokyo gangsters.” What makes Kitano’s gangster pictures so special is not their horrendous and constant bloody-letting, its the quiet moments in between.
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Takeshi Kitano Goes Back To Gangsters
1 December 2009 11:04 PM, PST
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It's been nine long years since Japanese icon Takeshi Kitano drew a line under his impressive run of superviolent gangster pics, with Brother. Since then there've been comedies and the brilliant samurai semi-musical Zatoichi, and Kitano has been a bit equivocal about the head-stomping and eye gouging that made his name (at least internationally). "Embarrassing" was one of the words he used.So he's either relented or come up with a new spin on his formula of quiet stoicism interspersed with sporadic bursts of jawdropping maiming. He has written the script and will direct and star in Outrage, which involves "power struggles among Tokyo gangsters". The co-production between Warner's Japanese arm and Kitano's own Office Kitano is scheduled for release next year.Kitano first came to the attention of western audiences with Violent Cop in the early 90s, closely followed by Boiling Point, Sonatine and Hana-Bi. The latter two in
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Holiday Preview: Anywhere But a Movie Theater
4 November 2009 11:14 AM, PST
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More Holiday Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Repertory Calendar] [Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
On Demand
IFC Films (with whom, full disclosure, we obviously share a parent company) will be delivering new films all holiday season to homes across the country through their Festival Direct and Sundance Selects labels. These include the cross-cultural romantic dramedy "I'll Come Running" (Nov. 4), Josiane Balasko's farce "A French Gigolo" (Nov. 6), the Inuit tribal drama "Necessities of Life" (Nov. 11), the Brit crime thriller "Adulthood" (Nov. 18), the Indian love story "Return to Rajapur" (Nov. 25), the Christopher Masterson-Bijou Phillips celibacy satire "Made for Each Other" (Dec. 2), "Harry Potter" helmer David Yates' gritty two-part drama "Sex Traffic" (Dec. 2 and 9), the Korean comedy "Night and Day" (Dec. 23) and "The Ghost" (Dec. 30).
Meanwhile, in the newly launched Sundance Selects series, there's a pair of harrowing documentaries VOD premieres: Kief Davidson's coming-of-age boxing doc "Kassim the Dream" (Nov. 27) and the unvarnished biopic "Nick Nolte: No Exit" (Dec.
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Takashi Miike to remake Eiichi Kudo’s 1963 film ‘Thirteen Assassins’!
12 May 2009 4:35 PM, PDT
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The ever diligent Japanese director is lacing up his sandals and brandishing a katana sword for an upcoming remake of Eiichi Kudo’s 1963 film Thirteen Assassins
The two producers behind this project are based in Japan and the UK. Japan’s Toshiaki Nakazawa picked up this year’s foreign-language Oscar for Departures, you might have heard of it, and has worked with Miike on Sukiyaki Western Django and The Bird People in China. The UK’s Jeremy Thomas has a extensive experience with Asian cinema. He made Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and brought Takeshi Kitano’s Brother to the international marketplace. Having a western based producer behind the production should mean a greater chance of Miike’s film traveling outside of Japan. Toho Studios has already bought the rights for the Japanese theatrical release.
Receiving a confidential order from a senior executive of the Tokugawa Sshogunate, 13 samurai
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Thirteen Assassins gets the green light
12 May 2009 5:14 AM, PDT
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Oscar winning producers Toshiaki Nakazawa and Jeremy Thomas have teamed up to produce a remake of the 1963 classic martial arts film Thirteen Assassins.
Director Takashi Miike will be helming the picture, due to begin shooting in Japan in July this year.
I've never seen the original movie it has to be said, but I'm liking the sound of it without a doubt. The Hollywood Reporter had more to say on the picture, stating:
The Japanese director is sharpening up plans to helm the shogun-era tale about 13 assassins, an evil lord and their secret mission to take him out. But unbeknownst to them, the assassins are outnumbered 10 to one by the lord's team of crack bodyguards. Swords, sandals and blood fly.
Thomas' sales and finance arm HanWay Films is handling international sales here in Cannes. Toho has prebought rights for a theatrical rollout in Japan. The slash fest will be produced
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- info@originalsharpsays.com (Craig Sharp)
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