This article contains Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins spoilers.
It’s been a long time since we’ve been to the movies and an even longer time since we’ve seen a ninja flick on the big screen. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is a dazzling return to the underrated ninja genre – a breakout premiere in the shadow of the pandemic.
Ninja films rarely earn a theatrical showing anymore. They are pigeon-holed as B-grade movie fodder, and justifiably so. Back in the 1980, ninja films proliferated when second and third-run movie theaters ruled. Campy, low budget ninja pictures were popular fare there back then, right alongside slasher films and teen sex comedies. But with the advent of home entertainment, those cheap flea-ridden theater seats atop soda-sticky floors are long gone. Nowadays, most new ninja films go straight to streaming so to see one on the big screen is quite a treat for fans of the genre.
It’s been a long time since we’ve been to the movies and an even longer time since we’ve seen a ninja flick on the big screen. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is a dazzling return to the underrated ninja genre – a breakout premiere in the shadow of the pandemic.
Ninja films rarely earn a theatrical showing anymore. They are pigeon-holed as B-grade movie fodder, and justifiably so. Back in the 1980, ninja films proliferated when second and third-run movie theaters ruled. Campy, low budget ninja pictures were popular fare there back then, right alongside slasher films and teen sex comedies. But with the advent of home entertainment, those cheap flea-ridden theater seats atop soda-sticky floors are long gone. Nowadays, most new ninja films go straight to streaming so to see one on the big screen is quite a treat for fans of the genre.
- 7/24/2021
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
The popular Summer Explorers free film season returns! From puppetoon animation to Samurai comedy, and a film version of Japan’s mega hit TV drama, there is something to suit all ages and tastes. Sunday, 12 August 2018: Courthouse Hotel Cinema, London
“His Master’s Voice” by Hiroyuki Itaya
Set in the Edo Period, Sadakichi (Nayuta Fukuzaki) returns home to take a holiday from his work after being bullied there. In order to cheer up their little son, his parents ask their gloomy looking neighbour, Taihei (Taihei Hayashiya), a former Rakugo storyteller, to give a performance for him. Sadakichi is deeply moved by his performance and hopes to become Taihei’s apprentice.
“Giovanni’s Island” by Mizuho Nishikubo th of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast. On the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship...
“His Master’s Voice” by Hiroyuki Itaya
Set in the Edo Period, Sadakichi (Nayuta Fukuzaki) returns home to take a holiday from his work after being bullied there. In order to cheer up their little son, his parents ask their gloomy looking neighbour, Taihei (Taihei Hayashiya), a former Rakugo storyteller, to give a performance for him. Sadakichi is deeply moved by his performance and hopes to become Taihei’s apprentice.
“Giovanni’s Island” by Mizuho Nishikubo th of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast. On the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship...
- 7/20/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Sari's kittens in Ceyda Torun's KEDi, her sharp-eyed documentary on what it means to be a cat in present day Istanbul.
Cat people Michael Haneke, Haruki Murakami, Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's Elle and Mia Hansen-Løve's Things To Come, and Emmanuel Bourdieu's Bébert in Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Kazuki Kitamura and Tamanojo in Takeshi Watanabe and Yoshitaka Yamaguchi's Samurai Cat (Neko zamurai), Robert De Niro favourite Lil Bub of Lil Bub & Friendz, and Sebastián Lelio when he spoke on Gloria, are the supporting cast in my conversation with Ceyda Torun at the Bowery Hotel in New York.
On following Sari - on her level: "It's all the nimble handiwork of Charlie Wuppermann, my cinematographer, and Alp Korfalı, who is a local, great cinematographer himself."
KEDi is a carefully and joyfully assembled collage of our interspecies interactions. Istanbul is cat city. They arrived thousands of years ago and...
Cat people Michael Haneke, Haruki Murakami, Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's Elle and Mia Hansen-Løve's Things To Come, and Emmanuel Bourdieu's Bébert in Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Kazuki Kitamura and Tamanojo in Takeshi Watanabe and Yoshitaka Yamaguchi's Samurai Cat (Neko zamurai), Robert De Niro favourite Lil Bub of Lil Bub & Friendz, and Sebastián Lelio when he spoke on Gloria, are the supporting cast in my conversation with Ceyda Torun at the Bowery Hotel in New York.
On following Sari - on her level: "It's all the nimble handiwork of Charlie Wuppermann, my cinematographer, and Alp Korfalı, who is a local, great cinematographer himself."
KEDi is a carefully and joyfully assembled collage of our interspecies interactions. Istanbul is cat city. They arrived thousands of years ago and...
- 3/27/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Stars: Yayan Ruhian, Rirî Furankî, Hayato Ichihara, Mio Yûki, Pierre Taki, Denden, Tetsu Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Riko Narumi, Reiko Takashima, Lily Frankie, Masanori Mimoto, Shô Aoyagi, Manzô Shinra, Kiyohiko Shibukawa | Written by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi | Directed by Takashi Miike
I’m not sure if it’s from watching Battles Without Honour and Humanity or my love of the Crows Zero movies that did it, but I have to admit that I was very excited about Takashi Miike’s Yakuza Apocalypse. Now that I’ve seen it, I may be a little confused but I’ll also admit to being in love with the insane little film.
Yakuza Apocalypse focuses on the story of Kageyama, a Yakuza who is ridiculed for his lack of signature tattoos down to his sensitive skin. When he witnesses the defeat of his former boss, whose decapitated head in turn bites him turning him into a vampire he turns into a vampire.
I’m not sure if it’s from watching Battles Without Honour and Humanity or my love of the Crows Zero movies that did it, but I have to admit that I was very excited about Takashi Miike’s Yakuza Apocalypse. Now that I’ve seen it, I may be a little confused but I’ll also admit to being in love with the insane little film.
Yakuza Apocalypse focuses on the story of Kageyama, a Yakuza who is ridiculed for his lack of signature tattoos down to his sensitive skin. When he witnesses the defeat of his former boss, whose decapitated head in turn bites him turning him into a vampire he turns into a vampire.
- 5/3/2016
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
dTv, Japan’s biggest streaming service released a preview for “Terraformars:A New Hope” series, a three-episode prequel of Takashi Miike’s adaptation, that will premiere on April 24, with the actual film scheduled for April 29.
The prequel will center on the research institute responsible for screening candidates for the Mars mission. The candidates will cheat and betray each other in a mental battle to be chosen as part of the crew, and it will reveal why the 15 crew members in the film were the ones chosen.
Hideaki Ito, Emi Takei, Mariko Shinoda, Rina Ota, Rinko Kikuchi, and Masaya Kato are reprising their roles from the film. Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Kōji Matoba, Ken Aoki, Takahiro Kuroishi, Kento Hayashi, Tetsuya Sugaya, Takemi Fujii, and Saki Takaoka are playing other characters who are unique to the prequel.
Takashi Miike supervises the production, with Yoshitaka Yamaguchi directing. Yamaguchi has worked before with Miike as assistant...
The prequel will center on the research institute responsible for screening candidates for the Mars mission. The candidates will cheat and betray each other in a mental battle to be chosen as part of the crew, and it will reveal why the 15 crew members in the film were the ones chosen.
Hideaki Ito, Emi Takei, Mariko Shinoda, Rina Ota, Rinko Kikuchi, and Masaya Kato are reprising their roles from the film. Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Kōji Matoba, Ken Aoki, Takahiro Kuroishi, Kento Hayashi, Tetsuya Sugaya, Takemi Fujii, and Saki Takaoka are playing other characters who are unique to the prequel.
Takashi Miike supervises the production, with Yoshitaka Yamaguchi directing. Yamaguchi has worked before with Miike as assistant...
- 4/10/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Stars: Yayan Ruhian, Rirî Furankî, Hayato Ichihara, Mio Yûki, Pierre Taki, Denden, Tetsu Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Riko Narumi, Reiko Takashima, Lily Frankie, Masanori Mimoto, Shô Aoyagi, Manzô Shinra, Kiyohiko Shibukawa | Written by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi | Directed by Takashi Miike
When considering the work of a director who often makes up to six or seven films a year, you might be forgiven for assuming that most of these would be low-key, simple productions focusing on small sets of characters. Not so in the case of Takashi Miike, the filmmaker behind such eyebrow-raising fare as the ultraviolent Ichi The Killer, zombie musical comedy The Happiness of the Katakuris and contemplative drama The Bird People in China. Never one to shirk an ambitious project for the sake of an easy life, Miike’s latest film sees him on world-ending form with Yakuza Apocalypse.
Kageyama is a low-level Yakuza thug bullied by his fellow gangsters...
When considering the work of a director who often makes up to six or seven films a year, you might be forgiven for assuming that most of these would be low-key, simple productions focusing on small sets of characters. Not so in the case of Takashi Miike, the filmmaker behind such eyebrow-raising fare as the ultraviolent Ichi The Killer, zombie musical comedy The Happiness of the Katakuris and contemplative drama The Bird People in China. Never one to shirk an ambitious project for the sake of an easy life, Miike’s latest film sees him on world-ending form with Yakuza Apocalypse.
Kageyama is a low-level Yakuza thug bullied by his fellow gangsters...
- 12/14/2015
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
Yakuza Apocalypse
Written by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi
Directed by Takashi Miike
Japan, 2015
Yakuza Apocalypse is the greatest yakuza vampire movie ever made. It also appears to be the only yakuza vampire movie ever made, and if Miike’s surreal, violent, hilarious and unashamedly bonkers film is anything to go by, it will probably be the last. Now that’s not to say that it’s bad, far from it, (although it will, of course, depend on one’s taste for Miike films) it’s just that the film is such a singularly strange and unique experience that any other filmmaker would have to be certifiably insane to try and throw their hat into the ring of this sub-sub-genre. Filled with anarchic humour and strange, even pointless, set pieces, Yakuza Apocalypse throws every single horror, action and gangster cliché or gag at the wall without a care in the world to see...
Written by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi
Directed by Takashi Miike
Japan, 2015
Yakuza Apocalypse is the greatest yakuza vampire movie ever made. It also appears to be the only yakuza vampire movie ever made, and if Miike’s surreal, violent, hilarious and unashamedly bonkers film is anything to go by, it will probably be the last. Now that’s not to say that it’s bad, far from it, (although it will, of course, depend on one’s taste for Miike films) it’s just that the film is such a singularly strange and unique experience that any other filmmaker would have to be certifiably insane to try and throw their hat into the ring of this sub-sub-genre. Filled with anarchic humour and strange, even pointless, set pieces, Yakuza Apocalypse throws every single horror, action and gangster cliché or gag at the wall without a care in the world to see...
- 10/16/2015
- by Liam Dunn
- SoundOnSight
This is a reprint of our review from the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It is a Tuesday afternoon and Takashi Miike is in a blue funk due to not having made a film in over a week. He stares out glumly at the Japanese scene of Japan outside which probably features Mt Fuji, sweet bean paste and/or cherry blossom trees. Screenwriter Yoshitaka Yamaguchi sits and doodles on a pad. Beneath the window, two five year olds play a game of make-believe. Snatches of their conversation float up to the pensive Miike. "...and he's, like Raaahr!" "...and then the vampire's all zhhhhhum, zhhhhum!" "...and then the Frog Monster comes back to life except now it gives you the Death Stare, and you can't move and..." The men exchange glances. Yamaguchi starts to transcribe, slowly at first and then more feverishly as vampires meet gangsters, assassins dressed as tourists team up with...
- 10/6/2015
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld (Gokudo Dai Senso)
Directed by Takashi Miike
Screenplay by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi
2015, Japan
Prolific Japanese genre auteur Takashi Miike returns to his gonzo roots with Yakuza Apocalypse, a genre mashup about a yakuza boss named Kamiura (Lily Franky) who’s assassinated by a coffin-toting English-speaking, Japanese, Django-wannabe gunslinger and his trusty sidekick (played by Indonesian action star Yayan Ruhian from The Raid). Just before his death, Kamiura’s decapitated head takes a bite out of his young protegé Kagayama (played by ruggedly handsome Hayato Ichihara), turning him into a bloodsucking vampire. Kagayama then takes to the streets turning regular citizens into the undead while rounding up an army of night-walkers before seeking revenge on his mentor’s killers.
Restraint is not a concept in the cinematic vocabulary of Miike Takashi and boy does he go wild here. If you were bored with...
Directed by Takashi Miike
Screenplay by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi
2015, Japan
Prolific Japanese genre auteur Takashi Miike returns to his gonzo roots with Yakuza Apocalypse, a genre mashup about a yakuza boss named Kamiura (Lily Franky) who’s assassinated by a coffin-toting English-speaking, Japanese, Django-wannabe gunslinger and his trusty sidekick (played by Indonesian action star Yayan Ruhian from The Raid). Just before his death, Kamiura’s decapitated head takes a bite out of his young protegé Kagayama (played by ruggedly handsome Hayato Ichihara), turning him into a bloodsucking vampire. Kagayama then takes to the streets turning regular citizens into the undead while rounding up an army of night-walkers before seeking revenge on his mentor’s killers.
Restraint is not a concept in the cinematic vocabulary of Miike Takashi and boy does he go wild here. If you were bored with...
- 9/26/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The thing about cinema is that it’s sometimes easy to feel like theatrical output is stuck in a bit of a rut. Distribution can occasionally seem like it’s simply dishing out the same thing over and over again, and that gets frustrating. There is such a wide spectrum of genre that there really should be something for everyone. Then Yakuza Apocalypse comes along, and mashes a whole bunch of those genres together – creating what looks to be something that is bold and original – and a little bit of order is restored.
Written by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, Yakuza Apocalypse is directed by Takashi Miike, who is the award-winning helmer of Visitor Q, Yatterman, Audition, and 13 Assassins, among many other films. Following its debut at the Cannes Film Festival, the film was met with a largely positive reaction, and we now have a full trailer to give a us real preview of the action.
Written by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, Yakuza Apocalypse is directed by Takashi Miike, who is the award-winning helmer of Visitor Q, Yatterman, Audition, and 13 Assassins, among many other films. Following its debut at the Cannes Film Festival, the film was met with a largely positive reaction, and we now have a full trailer to give a us real preview of the action.
- 9/25/2015
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Yakuza Apocalypse
Written by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi
Directed by Takashi Miiki
Japan, 2015
Japanese auteur Takashi Miike’s latest film, Yakuza Apocalypse, is a genre-bending trip into absurdity. Miike is known for pushing boundaries and testing the limits of what’s acceptable on screen. Those familiar with his past work shouldn’t be surprised by Yakuza Apocalypse’s wildly incoherent narrative. In his latest film, Miike takes elements from martial arts films, gangster movies, and horror flicks, and mashes them all together to form a cinematic chimera. While the thought of combining vampires, cowboys, and crime syndicates into one film sounds like a compelling idea, in actuality Yakuza Apocalypse is far less than the sum of its parts.
Kamiura (Lily Franky) is a Robin Hood-esque local Yakuza boss whose altruism is one of the last things holding his struggling neighborhood together. Kamiura’s community views him as an upstanding citizen, until an...
Written by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi
Directed by Takashi Miiki
Japan, 2015
Japanese auteur Takashi Miike’s latest film, Yakuza Apocalypse, is a genre-bending trip into absurdity. Miike is known for pushing boundaries and testing the limits of what’s acceptable on screen. Those familiar with his past work shouldn’t be surprised by Yakuza Apocalypse’s wildly incoherent narrative. In his latest film, Miike takes elements from martial arts films, gangster movies, and horror flicks, and mashes them all together to form a cinematic chimera. While the thought of combining vampires, cowboys, and crime syndicates into one film sounds like a compelling idea, in actuality Yakuza Apocalypse is far less than the sum of its parts.
Kamiura (Lily Franky) is a Robin Hood-esque local Yakuza boss whose altruism is one of the last things holding his struggling neighborhood together. Kamiura’s community views him as an upstanding citizen, until an...
- 9/24/2015
- by Victor Stiff
- SoundOnSight
With a career spanning over 20 years, Japanese director Takashi Miike has become one of the more well-known genre directors among film fans around the world, with films such as Ichi the Killer, Audition, Sukuyaki Western Django, and 13 Assassins as part of his filmography. Having released three films in 2012, and two each in 2013 and 2014, Miike has not slowed down this year, having already released two films in Japanese theatres, the second of which also played at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.
Titled Yakuza Apocalypse, Miike directs the film from a screenplay by first-time collaborator Yoshitaka Yamaguchi. The film’s synopsis is as follows.
In the ruthless underground world of the yakuza, no one is more legendary than boss Kamiura. Rumored to be invincible, the truth is he is a vampire-a bloodsucking yakuza vampire boss! Among Kamiura’s gang is Kageyama, his most loyal underling. However, the others in the...
Titled Yakuza Apocalypse, Miike directs the film from a screenplay by first-time collaborator Yoshitaka Yamaguchi. The film’s synopsis is as follows.
In the ruthless underground world of the yakuza, no one is more legendary than boss Kamiura. Rumored to be invincible, the truth is he is a vampire-a bloodsucking yakuza vampire boss! Among Kamiura’s gang is Kageyama, his most loyal underling. However, the others in the...
- 8/12/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Kazuki Kitamura with Tamanojo in Takeshi Watanabe and Yoshitaka Yamaguchi's Samurai Cat
Two recently opened exhibitions in New York, Andrew Bolton and Wong Kar Wai's China: Through the Looking Glass at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971 at The Museum of Modern Art, curated by Christophe Cherix and Klaus Biesenbach, have richly integrated film to magnify the experience, giving broader context to the work.
A sold-out special screening of Takeshi Watanabe and Yoshitaka Yamaguchi's Samurai Cat (Neko zamurai), which was shown in 2014 at the Japan Cuts Film Festival, was held last night in celebration of the second half of Japan Society's must-see Life Of Cats: Selections From The Hiraki Ukiyo-e Collection, closing this week.
Tamanojo, Samurai Cat, knows how to use what Paddington calls, "the hard stare."
Samurai Cat is a wildly entertaining warrior story about two clans at battle...
Two recently opened exhibitions in New York, Andrew Bolton and Wong Kar Wai's China: Through the Looking Glass at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971 at The Museum of Modern Art, curated by Christophe Cherix and Klaus Biesenbach, have richly integrated film to magnify the experience, giving broader context to the work.
A sold-out special screening of Takeshi Watanabe and Yoshitaka Yamaguchi's Samurai Cat (Neko zamurai), which was shown in 2014 at the Japan Cuts Film Festival, was held last night in celebration of the second half of Japan Society's must-see Life Of Cats: Selections From The Hiraki Ukiyo-e Collection, closing this week.
Tamanojo, Samurai Cat, knows how to use what Paddington calls, "the hard stare."
Samurai Cat is a wildly entertaining warrior story about two clans at battle...
- 5/31/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It is a Tuesday afternoon and Takashi Miike is in a blue funk due to not having made a film in over a week. He stares out glumly at the Japanese scene of Japan outside which probably features Mt Fuji, sweet bean paste and/or cherry blossom trees. Screenwriter Yoshitaka Yamaguchi sits and doodles on a pad. Beneath the window, two five year olds play a game of make-believe. Snatches of their conversation float up to the pensive Miike. "...and he's, like Raaahr!" "...and then the vampire's all zhhhhhum, zhhhhum!" "...and then the Frog Monster comes back to life except now it gives you the Death Stare, and you can't move and..." The men exchange glances. Yamaguchi starts to transcribe, slowly at first and then more feverishly as vampires meet gangsters, assassins dressed as tourists team up with Van Helsings dressed like Flemish painters, suicidal teenagers confront hospital patients and...
- 5/22/2015
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Nikkatsu pacts with Paris-based company, which will handle European sales on upcoming vampire yakuza movie.
Japanese studio Nikkatsu has pacted with Paris-based Backup Media, which will handle European sales on Takashi Miike’s upcoming vampire yakuza movie, Yakuza Apocalypse.
Nikkatsu has also sold the film to South Korea’s Media Soft, while Merantau Films, a production house on The Raid and The Raid 2, has acquired rights for Indonesia. As previously announced, Xyz Films is handling sales for North America.
Set for a spring 2015 delivery, the film will be released in Japan by Nikkatsu. The studio describes the movie as both a “festival favourite and a crowd pleaser”.
“Miike is one of the ‘in’ directors in Japan, and we expect he will entertain all Europe with Yakuza Apocalypse through Backup Media,” said Nikkatsu executive vice president, international operations, Aki Sugihara.
“It’s an honor for Backup Media to partner with such a great talented director and to...
Japanese studio Nikkatsu has pacted with Paris-based Backup Media, which will handle European sales on Takashi Miike’s upcoming vampire yakuza movie, Yakuza Apocalypse.
Nikkatsu has also sold the film to South Korea’s Media Soft, while Merantau Films, a production house on The Raid and The Raid 2, has acquired rights for Indonesia. As previously announced, Xyz Films is handling sales for North America.
Set for a spring 2015 delivery, the film will be released in Japan by Nikkatsu. The studio describes the movie as both a “festival favourite and a crowd pleaser”.
“Miike is one of the ‘in’ directors in Japan, and we expect he will entertain all Europe with Yakuza Apocalypse through Backup Media,” said Nikkatsu executive vice president, international operations, Aki Sugihara.
“It’s an honor for Backup Media to partner with such a great talented director and to...
- 11/8/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Ahead of next month’s Toronto International Film Festival, La-based Xyz Films has pacted with Nikkatsu to handle North America sales on two of the Japanese distributor’s anticipated genre titles. Tokyo Tribe, the latest from helmer Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Cold Fish, Why Don’t You Play In Hell?), is adapted from Santa Inoue’s manga about futuristic gang wars waged between thugs who battle through violence and rap. The film is written and directed by Sono and is set to open Tiff’s Midnight Madness program next month. Producers are Yoshinori Chiba, Kinya Oguchi and Nobuhiro Iizuka.
Xyz’s also repping North America on action-thriller Yakuza Apocalypse from Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi The Killer, 13 Assassins). The gangster pic/horror mash-up stars Yayan Ruhian of Xyz-produced The Raid and The Raid 2 alongside Hayato Ichihara in the story of a young yakuza who discovers his seemingly invincible boss is a vampire.
Xyz’s also repping North America on action-thriller Yakuza Apocalypse from Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi The Killer, 13 Assassins). The gangster pic/horror mash-up stars Yayan Ruhian of Xyz-produced The Raid and The Raid 2 alongside Hayato Ichihara in the story of a young yakuza who discovers his seemingly invincible boss is a vampire.
- 8/11/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
The worlds of martial arts, the Yakuza, and horror are set to collide as Twitch has scored the first look at Takashi Miike's latest guaranteed to kick ass flick, Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld, starring Raid star Yayan Ruhian.
Do you even need any more reasons to put this on your "most anticipated" list?
Scripted by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, the flick also stars Hayato Ichihara (All About Lily Chou-Chou).
Synopsis
Akira (Hayato Ichihara) admires Genyo Kamiura, who is the most powerful Yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has been targeted numerous times but has never died. He is called the invincible person.
Because of Genyo Kamiura, Akira enters the world of the Yakuza. His colleagues treat him like an idiot; Akira can't even get tattoos because of his sensitive skin. Akira becomes disappointed in the Yakuza world because it's not like what they say in the movies, especially in terms...
Do you even need any more reasons to put this on your "most anticipated" list?
Scripted by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, the flick also stars Hayato Ichihara (All About Lily Chou-Chou).
Synopsis
Akira (Hayato Ichihara) admires Genyo Kamiura, who is the most powerful Yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has been targeted numerous times but has never died. He is called the invincible person.
Because of Genyo Kamiura, Akira enters the world of the Yakuza. His colleagues treat him like an idiot; Akira can't even get tattoos because of his sensitive skin. Akira becomes disappointed in the Yakuza world because it's not like what they say in the movies, especially in terms...
- 6/25/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Nothing quite gets us pumped up here on Dread like news of a new Takashi Miike film, and the controversial Japanese filmmaker's next has got some pretty badass star-power attached, which makes the news all the more exciting. Read on!
As reported by Screen Daily, Miike has cast The Raid star Yayan Ruhian in his upcoming film Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld, which is being billed as the world's first yakuza vampire flick.
Scripted by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, Yakuza Apocalypse stars Hayato Ichihara as a yakuza underling who discovers his boss is a bloodsucker, only to get bitten himself before going up against a gang of deadly international assassins.
Ruhian, who also appeared in The Raid 2: Berandal, will play one of those assassins.
Miike's return to hardcore genre filmmaking is currently in production, set for a 2015 theatrical release in Japan.
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As reported by Screen Daily, Miike has cast The Raid star Yayan Ruhian in his upcoming film Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld, which is being billed as the world's first yakuza vampire flick.
Scripted by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, Yakuza Apocalypse stars Hayato Ichihara as a yakuza underling who discovers his boss is a bloodsucker, only to get bitten himself before going up against a gang of deadly international assassins.
Ruhian, who also appeared in The Raid 2: Berandal, will play one of those assassins.
Miike's return to hardcore genre filmmaking is currently in production, set for a 2015 theatrical release in Japan.
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Got news? Click here to submit it!
- 5/14/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive: Indonesian action star Yayan Ruhian (The Raid, The Raid 2) has been cast opposite Hayato Ichihara in Takashi Miike’s return to hardcore genre filmmaking.
Billed as the world’s first yakuza vampire movie, Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War Of The Underworld is currently in production for a 2015 theatrical release in Japan. Nikkatsu is launching sales in Cannes.
The Japanese studio already has an Indonesian connection as it recently co-produced Killers, directed by Indonesia’s Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto.
Scripted by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, Yakuza Apocalypse stars Ichihara as a yakuza underling who discovers his boss is a bloodsucker, only to get bitten himself before going up against a gang of deadly international assassins. Ichihara previously starred in TV series Rookies and Miike’s 2008 God’s Puzzle.
Ruhian, who plays one of the international assassins, specialises in the Silat style of martial arts and also starred in Gareth Evans’ Merantau before The Raid and The Raid 2.
Billed as the world’s first yakuza vampire movie, Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War Of The Underworld is currently in production for a 2015 theatrical release in Japan. Nikkatsu is launching sales in Cannes.
The Japanese studio already has an Indonesian connection as it recently co-produced Killers, directed by Indonesia’s Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto.
Scripted by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, Yakuza Apocalypse stars Ichihara as a yakuza underling who discovers his boss is a bloodsucker, only to get bitten himself before going up against a gang of deadly international assassins. Ichihara previously starred in TV series Rookies and Miike’s 2008 God’s Puzzle.
Ruhian, who plays one of the international assassins, specialises in the Silat style of martial arts and also starred in Gareth Evans’ Merantau before The Raid and The Raid 2.
- 5/14/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Japan’s Nikkatsu Corporation has announced director Takashi Miike has started shooting Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War Of The Underworld as of April 17.
This time, the prolific director of films such as Thirteen Assassins, Audition, Ichi The Killer and most recently The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji is combining the yakuza genre with vampire legend.
Yakuza Apocalypse stars Hayato Ichihara (Rookies: Graduation) as Kagayama, a feeble but loyal underling to legendary yakuza boss Kamiura, who turns out to be a vampire. When an assassin from an international syndicate arrives in Japan to deliver an ultimatum, Kamiura is killed. But, not before he manages to bite Kageyama, and the transformed underling sets out to get revenge against a formidable team of assassins.
“Take a hike, boring Japanese productions! Against everyone’s wishes, I’m going back to my roots on this one, and plan to go on a real rampage with Yakuza Apocalypse. I hope my...
This time, the prolific director of films such as Thirteen Assassins, Audition, Ichi The Killer and most recently The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji is combining the yakuza genre with vampire legend.
Yakuza Apocalypse stars Hayato Ichihara (Rookies: Graduation) as Kagayama, a feeble but loyal underling to legendary yakuza boss Kamiura, who turns out to be a vampire. When an assassin from an international syndicate arrives in Japan to deliver an ultimatum, Kamiura is killed. But, not before he manages to bite Kageyama, and the transformed underling sets out to get revenge against a formidable team of assassins.
“Take a hike, boring Japanese productions! Against everyone’s wishes, I’m going back to my roots on this one, and plan to go on a real rampage with Yakuza Apocalypse. I hope my...
- 4/17/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Japan’s Nikkatsu Corporation has announced director Takashi Miike has started shooting Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War Of The Underworld as of April 17.
This time, the prolific director of films such as Thirteen Assassins, Audition, Ichi The Killer and most recently The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji is combining the yakuza genre with vampire legend.
Yakuza Apocalypse stars Hayato Ichihara (Rookies: Graduation) as Kagayama, a feeble but loyal underling to legendary yakuza boss Kamiura, who turns out to be a vampire. When an assassin from an international syndicate arrives in Japan to deliver an ultimatum, Kamiura is killed. But, not before he manages to bite Kageyama, and the transformed underling sets out to get revenge against a formidable team of assassins.
“Take a hike, boring Japanese productions! Against everyone’s wishes, I’m going back to my roots on this one, and plan to go on a real rampage with Yakuza Apocalypse. I hope my...
This time, the prolific director of films such as Thirteen Assassins, Audition, Ichi The Killer and most recently The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji is combining the yakuza genre with vampire legend.
Yakuza Apocalypse stars Hayato Ichihara (Rookies: Graduation) as Kagayama, a feeble but loyal underling to legendary yakuza boss Kamiura, who turns out to be a vampire. When an assassin from an international syndicate arrives in Japan to deliver an ultimatum, Kamiura is killed. But, not before he manages to bite Kageyama, and the transformed underling sets out to get revenge against a formidable team of assassins.
“Take a hike, boring Japanese productions! Against everyone’s wishes, I’m going back to my roots on this one, and plan to go on a real rampage with Yakuza Apocalypse. I hope my...
- 4/17/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
We told you last year that a feature film adaptation of the popular manga series Ghost Hunt was in the works, and today comes word that two new actresses have joined the hunt. Read on!
Bloody Disgusting reports that 24-year-old French model Theo Gauchet and Sanae Tsukamoto (Death Tube) have signed on for roles in the film, which is set for a summer 2014 release in Japan.
They join the previously announced Akiko Maya Egami (aka Maya Fukuzawa) as the Mai Taniyama character, Mizuki Yamamoto as Masako Hara, and Yosuke Kawamura as Houshou Takigawa.
Following the ghost hunting exploits of a group of psychics and spiritualists throughout Japan, the story has previously been remade into a radio and anime series as well. Director Yoshitaka Yamaguchi was formerly assistant director to Miike Takashi on films such as Yatterman and God’s Puzzle. Yamaguchi’s directing credits include the film Arcana and TV series "Neko Zamurai.
Bloody Disgusting reports that 24-year-old French model Theo Gauchet and Sanae Tsukamoto (Death Tube) have signed on for roles in the film, which is set for a summer 2014 release in Japan.
They join the previously announced Akiko Maya Egami (aka Maya Fukuzawa) as the Mai Taniyama character, Mizuki Yamamoto as Masako Hara, and Yosuke Kawamura as Houshou Takigawa.
Following the ghost hunting exploits of a group of psychics and spiritualists throughout Japan, the story has previously been remade into a radio and anime series as well. Director Yoshitaka Yamaguchi was formerly assistant director to Miike Takashi on films such as Yatterman and God’s Puzzle. Yamaguchi’s directing credits include the film Arcana and TV series "Neko Zamurai.
- 1/23/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
The Japanese are seriously obsessed with the supernatural. They're also obsessed with used panties, but that's another story altogether. In any event, another live action adaptation of a popular manga is on its way.
According to Screen Daily, Twins Japan and Kadokawa Shoten have announced that a live action version of Ghost Hunt based on the popular novel and manga series is set to go into production next month.
Following the ghost hunting exploits of a group of psychics and spiritualists throughout Japan, the story has previously been remade into a radio and anime series as well. Director Yoshitaka Yamaguchi was formerly assistant director to Miike Takashi on films such as Yatterman and God’s Puzzle. Yamaguchi’s directing credits include the film Arcana and TV series "Neko Zamurai."
The Ghost Hunt film screenplay is written by Atsuyuki Shimoda and Shotaro Oikawa, based on the original novel by Kuyumi Oni...
According to Screen Daily, Twins Japan and Kadokawa Shoten have announced that a live action version of Ghost Hunt based on the popular novel and manga series is set to go into production next month.
Following the ghost hunting exploits of a group of psychics and spiritualists throughout Japan, the story has previously been remade into a radio and anime series as well. Director Yoshitaka Yamaguchi was formerly assistant director to Miike Takashi on films such as Yatterman and God’s Puzzle. Yamaguchi’s directing credits include the film Arcana and TV series "Neko Zamurai."
The Ghost Hunt film screenplay is written by Atsuyuki Shimoda and Shotaro Oikawa, based on the original novel by Kuyumi Oni...
- 11/5/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive: Twins Japan and Kadokawa Shoten have announced the live action version of Ghost Hunt, based on the popular novel and manga series is set to go into production next month.
Following the ghost-hunting exploits of a group of psychics and spiritualists throughout Japan, the story has previously been remade into a radio and anime series as well.
Director Yoshitaka Yamaguchi was formerly assistant director to Miike Takashi on films such as Yatterman and God’s Puzzle. Yamaguchi’s directing credits include the film Arcana and TV series Neko Zamurai.
The Ghost Hunt film screenplay is written by Atsuyuki Shimoda and Shotaro Oikawa, based on the original novel by Kuyumi Oni and the manga [pictured] by Shiho Inada.
Shimoda, whose credits include Sadako 3D and Doppelganger, is also producing. Shinichiro Inoue is attached as executive producer and Adrian Chaw is co-executive producer
The producers have confirmed Akiko Maya Egami (aka Maya Fukuzawa) to feature as the Mai Taniyama...
Following the ghost-hunting exploits of a group of psychics and spiritualists throughout Japan, the story has previously been remade into a radio and anime series as well.
Director Yoshitaka Yamaguchi was formerly assistant director to Miike Takashi on films such as Yatterman and God’s Puzzle. Yamaguchi’s directing credits include the film Arcana and TV series Neko Zamurai.
The Ghost Hunt film screenplay is written by Atsuyuki Shimoda and Shotaro Oikawa, based on the original novel by Kuyumi Oni and the manga [pictured] by Shiho Inada.
Shimoda, whose credits include Sadako 3D and Doppelganger, is also producing. Shinichiro Inoue is attached as executive producer and Adrian Chaw is co-executive producer
The producers have confirmed Akiko Maya Egami (aka Maya Fukuzawa) to feature as the Mai Taniyama...
- 11/5/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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