“We’ve been hanging out all these years.
But I know nothing about you.”
As we approach the transition from youth to adulthood, most of us experience the same kind of anxiety taking our first steps into “the world outside”. Even though the pressure of nostalgia makes us see the golden days of our teenage years, the decision at that point in our lives was anything but positive. In fact, many young people find the pressure of deciding which lives to lead, what career to choose and where to go to do all these things not only stressful but quite unbearable at times.
Countless stories have been told about these defining years of everyone’s lives. However, few of them have managed to capture the perspective of the young person in a believable way while idealizing their characters and their time as a consequence. Japanese director Satoru Hirohara knows about...
But I know nothing about you.”
As we approach the transition from youth to adulthood, most of us experience the same kind of anxiety taking our first steps into “the world outside”. Even though the pressure of nostalgia makes us see the golden days of our teenage years, the decision at that point in our lives was anything but positive. In fact, many young people find the pressure of deciding which lives to lead, what career to choose and where to go to do all these things not only stressful but quite unbearable at times.
Countless stories have been told about these defining years of everyone’s lives. However, few of them have managed to capture the perspective of the young person in a believable way while idealizing their characters and their time as a consequence. Japanese director Satoru Hirohara knows about...
- 6/1/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
"I'm ready for anything - bring it on!" says the ever-confident lead of Yûya Ishii’s latest film, Mitsuko Delivers. In a similar vein to his 2010 film, Sawako Decides, Ishii explores quirky characters learning to take control of their lives.
The heroine, Mitsuko (an excellent Riisa Naka), is heavily pregnant and left to deal alone with the imminent birth of her son after her American boyfriend dumps her. She doesn’t dwell on the past, fleetingly looking at a photograph of near naked guys partying and later matter-of-factly commenting "He was kind of big and really black". Her new neighbour rejects her offers of kindness and when she tries to sell items to make money to pay for medical bills, she ends up being charged a removal fee. Moving out with nothing more than a suitcase to her name, Mitsuko remains remarkably calm, giving her last remaining coins to a...
The heroine, Mitsuko (an excellent Riisa Naka), is heavily pregnant and left to deal alone with the imminent birth of her son after her American boyfriend dumps her. She doesn’t dwell on the past, fleetingly looking at a photograph of near naked guys partying and later matter-of-factly commenting "He was kind of big and really black". Her new neighbour rejects her offers of kindness and when she tries to sell items to make money to pay for medical bills, she ends up being charged a removal fee. Moving out with nothing more than a suitcase to her name, Mitsuko remains remarkably calm, giving her last remaining coins to a...
- 7/20/2012
- Shadowlocked
Director: Yuya Ishii. Review: Adam Wing. “When the wind blows your way, go with it.” Mitsuko Delivers is the new film from Yuya Ishii (Sawako Decides), starring Riisa Naka (Love Strikes!), Aoi Nakamura (Quirky Guys & Gals) and Ryo Ishibashi (Audition). Yuya Ishii is certainly making a name for himself; Sawako Decides won the Best Director accolade at the Blue Ribbon Awards, and the Best New Director Award at the Yokohama Film Festival. Hikari Mitsushima led an impressive cast in an enjoyable comedy drama that encouraged you to embrace the mediocrity of life and overcome it. Flawed yet fruitful, Sawako Decides was overlong and inconsequential, but it was also blessed with enough quirky charm to see it through. His latest release, Mitsuko Delivers, takes similar themes and waltzes amongst the clouds with them. Mitsuko (Riisa Naka) is in the closing stages of her pregnancy to an African American guy she met in California.
- 5/17/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
Dark Shadows (12A)
(Tim Burton, 2012, Us) Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jackie Earle Haley. 113 mins
Another expensive pop-gothic fantasy (remake) for Depp and Burton's gallery – how long before either they get bored or we do? This time Johnny's an effete 18th-century vampire, reawakened in 1972 to reunite with his dysfunctional Addams-like descendants and marvel at the modern world. Expect fish-out-of-water silliness, a light shade of darkness, and the usual descent into messiness.
Café De Flore (15)
(Jean-Marc Vallée, 2011, Can) Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent. 121 mins
Music and mystery add a great deal to this well-made emotional drama, which switches between a present-day DJ and a 1970s mother (Paradis) whose child has Down's syndrome.
Beloved (15)
(Christophe Honoré, 2011, Fra/UK/Cze) Chiara Mastroianni, Ludivine Sagnier, Catherine Deneuve. 139 mins
Using flashbacks and musical moments, Honoré tells the story of a former prostitute, her daughter and the men in their lives.
(Tim Burton, 2012, Us) Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jackie Earle Haley. 113 mins
Another expensive pop-gothic fantasy (remake) for Depp and Burton's gallery – how long before either they get bored or we do? This time Johnny's an effete 18th-century vampire, reawakened in 1972 to reunite with his dysfunctional Addams-like descendants and marvel at the modern world. Expect fish-out-of-water silliness, a light shade of darkness, and the usual descent into messiness.
Café De Flore (15)
(Jean-Marc Vallée, 2011, Can) Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent. 121 mins
Music and mystery add a great deal to this well-made emotional drama, which switches between a present-day DJ and a 1970s mother (Paradis) whose child has Down's syndrome.
Beloved (15)
(Christophe Honoré, 2011, Fra/UK/Cze) Chiara Mastroianni, Ludivine Sagnier, Catherine Deneuve. 139 mins
Using flashbacks and musical moments, Honoré tells the story of a former prostitute, her daughter and the men in their lives.
- 5/11/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ Yûya Ishii's Mitsuko Delivers (2011) tells the story of a young single woman in the ninth month of her pregnancy who relinquishes her fate to the wind, drifting through life like a wayward cloud. Starring Riisa Naka, Aoi Nakamura and Ryo Ishibashi, Ishii's latest feature is a quintessential slice of contemporary Japanese cinema with a refreshing, original twist.
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- 5/10/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Over the weekend, it was announced that 21-year-old actress Riisa Naka will be starring in Yuya Ishii’s Hara ga Kore Nande.
Naka will play a 24-year-old woman named Mitsuko who’s 9 months pregnant to an unknown father, but still puts aside her own problems to help others. Her character is described as having a deep sense of duty and humanity, traits which are getting less and less common in modern society. The hope is that Mitsuko’s disposition will tug at the heartstrings of Japanese audiences much like the Tora-san character did through the Showa era.
Although Naka admitted playing a pregnant woman was a particularly difficult challenge at this stage of her career, the belly prosthesis seems to have helped her get into character. “It’s heavy enough cause joint pain,” she said. “It makes the whole body feel heavy like a pregnant woman.”
Ryo Ishibashi has also been cast in the film,...
Naka will play a 24-year-old woman named Mitsuko who’s 9 months pregnant to an unknown father, but still puts aside her own problems to help others. Her character is described as having a deep sense of duty and humanity, traits which are getting less and less common in modern society. The hope is that Mitsuko’s disposition will tug at the heartstrings of Japanese audiences much like the Tora-san character did through the Showa era.
Although Naka admitted playing a pregnant woman was a particularly difficult challenge at this stage of her career, the belly prosthesis seems to have helped her get into character. “It’s heavy enough cause joint pain,” she said. “It makes the whole body feel heavy like a pregnant woman.”
Ryo Ishibashi has also been cast in the film,...
- 4/18/2011
- Nippon Cinema
The official website for Takashi Kubota’s Kimi to Boku has been updated with a YouTube embed of the film’s full trailer.
The film is a 45-minute live-action adaptation of Shigeto Yamagara’s autobiographical flash animation of the same name, which has racked up over 4.8 million views since 2001. Aoi Nakamura stars as a young aspiring manga artist who’s able to deal with loneliness and separation from his family through the companionship of an American Shorthair cat named Gin-o-gou (voice-over by Maaya Sakamoto).
Arc Films will be releasing “Kimi to Boku” in Tokyo on May 14, 2011 with a nation-wide release to follow.
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The film is a 45-minute live-action adaptation of Shigeto Yamagara’s autobiographical flash animation of the same name, which has racked up over 4.8 million views since 2001. Aoi Nakamura stars as a young aspiring manga artist who’s able to deal with loneliness and separation from his family through the companionship of an American Shorthair cat named Gin-o-gou (voice-over by Maaya Sakamoto).
Arc Films will be releasing “Kimi to Boku” in Tokyo on May 14, 2011 with a nation-wide release to follow.
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- 4/12/2011
- Nippon Cinema
The official website for Takashi Kubota’s Kimi to Boku has been updated with a YouTube embed of the film’s first teaser trailer.
The film is a 45-minute live-action adaptation of Shigeto Yamagara’s autobiographical flash animation of the same name, which has racked up over 4.8 million views since 2001. Aoi Nakamura stars as a young aspiring manga artist who’s able to deal with loneliness and separation from his family through the companionship of an American Shorthair cat named Gin-o-gou (voice-over by Maaya Sakamoto).
Arc Films will be releasing “Kimi to Boku” in Tokyo on May 14, 2011 with a nation-wide release to follow.
Watch »...
The film is a 45-minute live-action adaptation of Shigeto Yamagara’s autobiographical flash animation of the same name, which has racked up over 4.8 million views since 2001. Aoi Nakamura stars as a young aspiring manga artist who’s able to deal with loneliness and separation from his family through the companionship of an American Shorthair cat named Gin-o-gou (voice-over by Maaya Sakamoto).
Arc Films will be releasing “Kimi to Boku” in Tokyo on May 14, 2011 with a nation-wide release to follow.
Watch »...
- 3/9/2011
- Nippon Cinema
The official website for the upcoming omnibus comedy film Sabi Otoko Sabi Onna has been updated with a low-res trailer. “Sabi” is a Japanese word for the refrain of a song, so the title refers to a theme of stories about unique men and women thrown into unconventional situations without any of the usual build up.
“Fine, Totally Fine” director Yosuke Fujita’s segment is called Hagemashi Girls and stars Nanami Sakuraba as Chiharu, a college student who lives to support others. She forms a group called “Hagemashi Girls” with classmates Mamiko (Kumiko Shiratori) and Sanae (Emiko Kawamura), and together they spend all of their time singing and dancing to encourage people. However, when they’re tapped to cheer on a slumping baseball player, their well-meaning hobby begins to backfire in unexpected ways.
From “Happy Darts” director Tomoko Matsunashi comes Boy? meets girl. Aoi Nakamura (Beck) stars as a shy...
“Fine, Totally Fine” director Yosuke Fujita’s segment is called Hagemashi Girls and stars Nanami Sakuraba as Chiharu, a college student who lives to support others. She forms a group called “Hagemashi Girls” with classmates Mamiko (Kumiko Shiratori) and Sanae (Emiko Kawamura), and together they spend all of their time singing and dancing to encourage people. However, when they’re tapped to cheer on a slumping baseball player, their well-meaning hobby begins to backfire in unexpected ways.
From “Happy Darts” director Tomoko Matsunashi comes Boy? meets girl. Aoi Nakamura (Beck) stars as a shy...
- 10/26/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Thursday, September 16, 2010The Tokyo TimesStupid American Ghosts Overrun Japan! Tokyo Drenched In Fear!By Hiroshi Fukikama -Hiroshi here. Normally my focus is on Godzilla, and his plans to take over and kill all of you fat stupid Americans. But now it seems as if you large ugly burger eaters are getting revenge on us by sending us your spirits and ghosts! You are evil arsehole people!!!Look. We admit. Japanese ghost not very scary. In fact, most are just some annoying stupid little kid who scream like cat getting raped in an alley. Our ghosts are very dumb and really all they can do is pop up in annoying places to try and scare us. So we ignore them and now they all hang out in subways wondering what to do next. Remember boy ghost from movie The Grudge? Owner finally grab him and kick the living shit out of him.
- 9/17/2010
- LRMonline.com
A Japanese sequel to Paranormal Activity called Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night is said to be 'a direct continuation of the events of Oren Peli and Jason Blum's 2007 original and takes place in Japan as a girl who visited San Diego as an exchange student unwittingly brings the evil that haunted Katie Featherston into her family's house'. Full details below. In a story from Screen Daily, the story of Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night 'chronicles the young woman's videotape recordings in their house and the shocking realization of the supernatural force that her family must defeat. Toshikazu Nagae is directing the project from his own screenplay and Aoi Nakamura and Noriko Aoyama star....
- 9/15/2010
- FEARnet
Hey demonic spirits need vacations too and that's exactly the case in what appears to be a spin-off movie venturing to Japan. This is not the American sequel Paranormal Activity 2 which hits the states this October, this is an entirely different movie titled Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night (sounds like a bitch'n racing movie doesn't it?)...
Our friend Ryan Rotten from Styd says the spin-off sequel will "center around a foreign exchange student visiting San Diego, who unwittingly brings the demonic presence that haunted the first film back to Japan with him. The story will be told via the student’s video recordings."
Toshikazu Nagae is directing the project from his own screenplay and Aoi Nakamura and Noriko Aoyama star. Stay tuned for more Pa information as we get it.
Source: Styd
Original post blogged on b2evolution.
Our friend Ryan Rotten from Styd says the spin-off sequel will "center around a foreign exchange student visiting San Diego, who unwittingly brings the demonic presence that haunted the first film back to Japan with him. The story will be told via the student’s video recordings."
Toshikazu Nagae is directing the project from his own screenplay and Aoi Nakamura and Noriko Aoyama star. Stay tuned for more Pa information as we get it.
Source: Styd
Original post blogged on b2evolution.
- 9/15/2010
- by Keepers of the Bid
- Horrorbid
Not to be mistaken with the upcoming “Paranormal Activity 2″ that’s due out on Halloween of this year, this is apparently a completely different movie, a spin-off sequel if you will, that will take the franchise to Japan. (You know, sorta like a reverse “Grudge”, where the franchise came to the U.S.?) Styd says the spin-off sequel will center around a foreign exchange student visiting San Diego, who unwittingly brings the demonic presence that haunted the first film back to Japan with him. The story will be told via the student’s video recordings. I got $50 bucks that says a chick with long hair shows up at one point. Toshikazu Nagae (an old hand with ghost movies, including 2002′s “Ghost System”) will direct, and Aoi Nakamura (“Beck”) and Noriko Aoyama (“Legendary Assassin”, below) will star.
- 9/15/2010
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Japanese audiences are in for a wild Tokyo Night . Presidio is at work on a sequel to Paranormal Activity called Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night . The film picks up after Oren Peli's film and tells of a foreign exchange student visiting San Diego who brings the demonic presence that haunted the first film to Japan. The story is told via the student's video recordings. Toshikazu Nagae is directing the project from his own screenplay and Aoi Nakamura and Noriko Aoyama star. Interesting, as Tokyo Night is strangely mirroring the same turn The Grudge series took. By the third Grudge film, a supernatural force follows an American to Chicago from Japan. We're volleying evil spirits!
- 9/15/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Shochiku has uploaded a new full trailer for Yukihiko Tsutsumi‘s live-action adaptation of Beck to their YouTube channel and the film’s official website.
Based on Harold Sakuishi’s long-running manga, the film stars Takeru Sato as Koyuki, an ordinary high school student who’s encouraged to pick up guitar after a chance encounter with a talented guitarist named Ryusuke Minami (Hiro Mizushima). The two eventually form a band with bassist Taira (Osamu Mukai), lead vocalist Chiba (Kenta Kiritani), and drummer Saku (Aoi Nakamura). They name the band Beck after Minami’s dog and Koyuki discovers he has a natural gift for playing guitar. As his talent blooms, the band experiences more and more success, eventually getting invited to play at a rock festival.
Beck will be released in Japan on September 4, 2010.
Source: YouTube via @wildgrounds...
Based on Harold Sakuishi’s long-running manga, the film stars Takeru Sato as Koyuki, an ordinary high school student who’s encouraged to pick up guitar after a chance encounter with a talented guitarist named Ryusuke Minami (Hiro Mizushima). The two eventually form a band with bassist Taira (Osamu Mukai), lead vocalist Chiba (Kenta Kiritani), and drummer Saku (Aoi Nakamura). They name the band Beck after Minami’s dog and Koyuki discovers he has a natural gift for playing guitar. As his talent blooms, the band experiences more and more success, eventually getting invited to play at a rock festival.
Beck will be released in Japan on September 4, 2010.
Source: YouTube via @wildgrounds...
- 7/6/2010
- Nippon Cinema
It’s been known for a while now that Nobuhiro Yamashita (Linda Linda Linda, A Gentle Breeze in the Village) was working on a new film, thanks to a mysterious listing added to IMDb a while back for an Untitled Nobuhiro Yamashita Project. The listing hasn’t given away much info aside from the fact that Yamashita was once again working with “Linda Linda Linda” screenwriter Kosuke Mukai, but further details finally came out earlier today in Japan.
The new film is called My Back Page and is set in the late 1960s around the time of the student protests at Tokyo University. It’s based on the experiences of film critic and translator Saburo Kawamoto, who worked as a newspaper reporter from 1969-1972. Satoshi Tsumabuki (29) will play a journalist and Kenichi Matsuyama (25) will play a left-wing university student. This marks the first time the two popular actors have co-starred in a film together.
The new film is called My Back Page and is set in the late 1960s around the time of the student protests at Tokyo University. It’s based on the experiences of film critic and translator Saburo Kawamoto, who worked as a newspaper reporter from 1969-1972. Satoshi Tsumabuki (29) will play a journalist and Kenichi Matsuyama (25) will play a left-wing university student. This marks the first time the two popular actors have co-starred in a film together.
- 5/13/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Back in December, it was announced that a new film adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ooku manga was in the works and that it would star Kou Shibasaki and Arashi’s Kazunari Ninomiya in the two lead roles. Then in February, a new batch of co-stars was announced including Maki Horikita, Hiroshi Tamaki, Sadao Abe, and Tadayoshi Okura (of Kanjani8).
Today it was revealed that the cast will also include Kuranosuke Sasaki, Emi Wakui, Mitsuko Baisho, Muga Takewaki, and Aoi Nakamura, among others.
The film is set in an alternate an alternate version of Japan in which a disease has drastically decreased the male population, turning the nation into a matriarchal society in which young men are treated as a precious commodity never to be risked in sports or war. Within the story, gender roles and names are typically reversed. Ninomiya stars as a commoner named Mizuno who enters the...
Today it was revealed that the cast will also include Kuranosuke Sasaki, Emi Wakui, Mitsuko Baisho, Muga Takewaki, and Aoi Nakamura, among others.
The film is set in an alternate an alternate version of Japan in which a disease has drastically decreased the male population, turning the nation into a matriarchal society in which young men are treated as a precious commodity never to be risked in sports or war. Within the story, gender roles and names are typically reversed. Ninomiya stars as a commoner named Mizuno who enters the...
- 4/28/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Shochiku has released a new, slightly longer second teaser trailer for Yukihiko Tsutsumi‘s Beck, a live-action adaptation of Harold Sakuishi’s long-running band manga.
The film stars Takeru Sato as Koyuki, an ordinary high school student who’s encouraged to pick up guitar after a chance encounter with a talented guitarist named Ryusuke Minami (Hiro Mizushima). The two eventually form a band with bassist Taira (Osamu Mukai), lead vocalist Chiba (Kenta Kiritani), and drummer Saku (Aoi Nakamura). They name the band Beck after Minami’s dog and Koyuki discovers he has a natural gift for playing guitar. As his talent blooms, the band experiences more and more success, eventually getting invited to play at a rock festival.
Beck will be released in Japan on September 4, 2010.
Source: Yahoo! Eiga...
The film stars Takeru Sato as Koyuki, an ordinary high school student who’s encouraged to pick up guitar after a chance encounter with a talented guitarist named Ryusuke Minami (Hiro Mizushima). The two eventually form a band with bassist Taira (Osamu Mukai), lead vocalist Chiba (Kenta Kiritani), and drummer Saku (Aoi Nakamura). They name the band Beck after Minami’s dog and Koyuki discovers he has a natural gift for playing guitar. As his talent blooms, the band experiences more and more success, eventually getting invited to play at a rock festival.
Beck will be released in Japan on September 4, 2010.
Source: Yahoo! Eiga...
- 4/23/2010
- Nippon Cinema
The Japanese website for the live-action adaptation of Harold Sakuishi’s Beck coming-of-age-and-rocking-the-world manga has been updated with a first teaser trailer showing Hiro Mizushima, Takeru Satoh, Kenta Kiritani, Aoi Nakamura and Osamu Mukai as the members of the band. The adaptation is directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi (20th Century Boys) and is supposed to open in Japan in Fall 2010.
I stopped watching the anime adaptation after a few episodes because of too much angsty/driveless teens, so what do people who know the original manga and animation have say about this first footage?
[See post to watch Flash video]
[via Ann & Eiga.com]...
I stopped watching the anime adaptation after a few episodes because of too much angsty/driveless teens, so what do people who know the original manga and animation have say about this first footage?
[See post to watch Flash video]
[via Ann & Eiga.com]...
- 1/7/2010
- by Ulrik
- Affenheimtheater
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