Funerals in Japan have always been an inspiration for a cinema that leans so much on the family drama/comedy, as the concept gives opportunities for drama, dark comedy and social comments to an equal degree. Noriko Yuasa, in her feature debut, presents her take, in a film that leans more towards the comedy.
Performing Kaoru's Funeral is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Just as she was to be recognized and lauded for her talents as a scriptwriter, Kaoru was killed in an accident. In her last will and testament, in which her eccentricity and elusiveness are found aplenty, she has tasked her ex-husband, self-proclaimed actor Jun Yokotani, to serve as chief mourner and host her funeral. Through surprised by the sudden news and his appointment, Jun takes the trip to the small village where Kaoru grew up, only to find that her family and ‘inner circle” is...
Performing Kaoru's Funeral is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Just as she was to be recognized and lauded for her talents as a scriptwriter, Kaoru was killed in an accident. In her last will and testament, in which her eccentricity and elusiveness are found aplenty, she has tasked her ex-husband, self-proclaimed actor Jun Yokotani, to serve as chief mourner and host her funeral. Through surprised by the sudden news and his appointment, Jun takes the trip to the small village where Kaoru grew up, only to find that her family and ‘inner circle” is...
- 3/6/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: 108 Media, the production, finance and distribution company headquartered in Toronto and London, has boarded Noriko Yuasa’s upcoming Japanese tragicomedy Performing Kaoru’s Funeral.
The company will act as a co-producer on the project and will also handle worldwide sales, including at the upcoming Busan International Film Festival. Casting is in the process.
Directed by Yuasa (Coming Back Sunny), the pic tells the story of Jun Yokotani, bound by obligations of death to honour his estranged ex-wife Kaoru’s passing before he can begin life anew. Completely incompatible, Yokotani and Kaoru’s daughter (also named Kaoru) must change their lives completely as they try to create a new family while performing Kaoru’s funeral.
Takato Nishi wrote he screenplay. Mika Shimoeda is producing, with Takeo Hisamatsu of MyWay Movies co-producing. Filming will begin in January 2022 in Japan and will last four weeks.
Yuasa said, “This project focuses on...
The company will act as a co-producer on the project and will also handle worldwide sales, including at the upcoming Busan International Film Festival. Casting is in the process.
Directed by Yuasa (Coming Back Sunny), the pic tells the story of Jun Yokotani, bound by obligations of death to honour his estranged ex-wife Kaoru’s passing before he can begin life anew. Completely incompatible, Yokotani and Kaoru’s daughter (also named Kaoru) must change their lives completely as they try to create a new family while performing Kaoru’s funeral.
Takato Nishi wrote he screenplay. Mika Shimoeda is producing, with Takeo Hisamatsu of MyWay Movies co-producing. Filming will begin in January 2022 in Japan and will last four weeks.
Yuasa said, “This project focuses on...
- 10/14/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Projects include Toei Animation’s The Lost Titan (working title) in collaboration with John A. Davis.
Tiffcom, the film and TV market accompanying Tokyo International Film Festival, has announced the 20 projects selected for the first edition of its Tokyo Gap Financing Market (Tgfm), which is scheduled to run online November 4-6.
The selection includes 14 feature-length projects, four of which are animations, and six TV series projects, including three animations. Female producers are involved in 11 of the projects, which have a total budget volume of around $3m, with an average 66% of financing secured.
Projects include Toei Animation’s The Lost Titan...
Tiffcom, the film and TV market accompanying Tokyo International Film Festival, has announced the 20 projects selected for the first edition of its Tokyo Gap Financing Market (Tgfm), which is scheduled to run online November 4-6.
The selection includes 14 feature-length projects, four of which are animations, and six TV series projects, including three animations. Female producers are involved in 11 of the projects, which have a total budget volume of around $3m, with an average 66% of financing secured.
Projects include Toei Animation’s The Lost Titan...
- 10/5/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Morgan worked with Golden Harvest in Hong Kong in the 1970s, helping to bring stars like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan to the world.
China-based producer Andre Morgan gave an in-depth overview of the seismic changes currently reshaping mainland China’s film industry in an Mpa workshop at Tiffcom, saying the local production sector is facing its “year of reckoning”.
In a wide-ranging talk that also covered the Japanese film industry and offered helpful tips for up-and-coming producers and directors, Morgan described the phenomenal growth the Chinese film industry has undergone since the early 2000s – and how that has resulted...
China-based producer Andre Morgan gave an in-depth overview of the seismic changes currently reshaping mainland China’s film industry in an Mpa workshop at Tiffcom, saying the local production sector is facing its “year of reckoning”.
In a wide-ranging talk that also covered the Japanese film industry and offered helpful tips for up-and-coming producers and directors, Morgan described the phenomenal growth the Chinese film industry has undergone since the early 2000s – and how that has resulted...
- 10/29/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Morgan worked with Golden Harvest in Hong Kong in the 1970s, helping to bring stars like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan to the world.
China-based producer Andre Morgan gave an in-depth overview of the seismic changes currently reshaping mainland China’s film industry in an Mpa workshop at Tiffcom, saying the local production sector is facing its “year of reckoning”.
In a wide-ranging talk that also covered the Japanese film industry and offered helpful tips for up-and-coming producers and directors, Morgan described the phenomenal growth the Chinese film industry has undergone since the early 2000s – and how that has resulted...
China-based producer Andre Morgan gave an in-depth overview of the seismic changes currently reshaping mainland China’s film industry in an Mpa workshop at Tiffcom, saying the local production sector is facing its “year of reckoning”.
In a wide-ranging talk that also covered the Japanese film industry and offered helpful tips for up-and-coming producers and directors, Morgan described the phenomenal growth the Chinese film industry has undergone since the early 2000s – and how that has resulted...
- 10/27/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
China-based producer Andre Morgan gave an in-depth overview of the seismic changes currently reshaping mainland China’s film industry in an Mpa workshop at Tiffcom, saying the local production sector is facing its “year of reckoning”.
China-based producer Andre Morgan gave an in-depth overview of the seismic changes currently reshaping mainland China’s film industry in an Mpa workshop at Tiffcom, saying the local production sector is facing its “year of reckoning”.
In a wide-ranging talk that also covered the Japanese film industry and offered helpful tips for up-and-coming producers and directors, Morgan described the phenomenal growth the Chinese...
China-based producer Andre Morgan gave an in-depth overview of the seismic changes currently reshaping mainland China’s film industry in an Mpa workshop at Tiffcom, saying the local production sector is facing its “year of reckoning”.
In a wide-ranging talk that also covered the Japanese film industry and offered helpful tips for up-and-coming producers and directors, Morgan described the phenomenal growth the Chinese...
- 10/27/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
The Japenese festival that focuses solely on digital cinema reveals its 2015 winners.
The 12th Skip City International D-Cinema Festival (July 18-26), which highlights films shot on the digital format and only consider directors with fewer than four feature credits, has revealed its winners.
Cuban drama Behavior won the grand prix Sony d-cinema award, which comes with a prize of $8,100 (1,000,000 yen).
Ernesto Daranas’s film, which tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who provides for his drug-addicted mother by training fighting dogs with a man who may be his father, was recently nominated in seven categories at the Platino awards.
Mexican filmmaker Jorge Pérez Solano picked up the best director award for his film La Tirisia.
The best screenplay award went to Mark Noonan for You’re Ugly Too, which premiered in Berlin this year.
Director Hanae Uchida was presented with the Skip City award for her film For The Love Of Life: Living For Tomorrow; the winner...
The 12th Skip City International D-Cinema Festival (July 18-26), which highlights films shot on the digital format and only consider directors with fewer than four feature credits, has revealed its winners.
Cuban drama Behavior won the grand prix Sony d-cinema award, which comes with a prize of $8,100 (1,000,000 yen).
Ernesto Daranas’s film, which tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who provides for his drug-addicted mother by training fighting dogs with a man who may be his father, was recently nominated in seven categories at the Platino awards.
Mexican filmmaker Jorge Pérez Solano picked up the best director award for his film La Tirisia.
The best screenplay award went to Mark Noonan for You’re Ugly Too, which premiered in Berlin this year.
Director Hanae Uchida was presented with the Skip City award for her film For The Love Of Life: Living For Tomorrow; the winner...
- 7/27/2015
- ScreenDaily
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