When I started watching Valentina Khodnevich’s dance film Sun I was immediately hooked by its tactile, hazy 16mm photography. But as it went on, its message and celebration of everyday routines became the focal point that stayed with me after the credits rolled. What makes Khodnevich’s film so interesting is how she uses dance as a vessel for the cyclical nature of human life, incorporating mechanical movements inspired by daily, mundane activities. This is accompanied by a trance-inducing rhythmic score populated with industrial beats and a twanging guitar that together, with the movements, form a complete and engrossing package. Dn is delighted to premiere Sun alongside a conversation with Khodnevich where she breaks down the journey of the film from a logistical standpoint, the juxtaposition of natural and industrial locations, and the decision to shoot on a 16mm Bolex.
How have you been pitching Sun to both your collaborators and audiences?...
How have you been pitching Sun to both your collaborators and audiences?...
- 6/6/2024
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
Get ready for a mouthwatering adventure on the season premiere of “Best Bite in Town” airing on Food Network this Friday, May 24, 2024, at 9:00 Pm. In this exciting episode titled “Newport,” host Guy Fieri sends Noah Cappe on a culinary journey to Newport, Rhode Island, accompanied by celebrity chefs Tiffani Faison and Shota Nakajima.
As they explore the vibrant food scene of Newport, Noah, Tiffani, and Shota indulge in a wide array of delicious dishes, from hearty chowder and savory noodles to mouthwatering burgers and flaky biscuits. With taste buds tingling and appetites in full swing, they embark on a mission to uncover the ultimate culinary gem of the town.
Viewers can expect a feast for the senses as Noah, Tiffani, and Shota navigate through Newport’s eateries, sampling diverse flavors and uncovering hidden culinary treasures. From cozy diners to trendy bistros, they leave no stone unturned in their quest...
As they explore the vibrant food scene of Newport, Noah, Tiffani, and Shota indulge in a wide array of delicious dishes, from hearty chowder and savory noodles to mouthwatering burgers and flaky biscuits. With taste buds tingling and appetites in full swing, they embark on a mission to uncover the ultimate culinary gem of the town.
Viewers can expect a feast for the senses as Noah, Tiffani, and Shota navigate through Newport’s eateries, sampling diverse flavors and uncovering hidden culinary treasures. From cozy diners to trendy bistros, they leave no stone unturned in their quest...
- 5/17/2024
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
Makoto Shinkai has etched his name among the fans’ minds with his movies. He delivered one of the greatest-ever anime movies, Your Name, in 2016. Since then, fans have had higher expectations from every movie that his name has been related to. His latest film to hit the theatres was Suzume. It was released in 2022 in Japan and had a worldwide release in 2023.
Regardless of the story, everyone was excited about the film since it was Makoto Shinkai’s creation. It was a fascinating watch, but only a few people know the true inspiration behind the creation of Suzume. The director was inspired by 2011’s Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which was the most powerful earthquake in the history of Japan.
Suzume Holds A Real Life Significance Suzume (Credit: Toho)
Suzume had a worldwide release in 2023. It instantly became one of the most successful anime films, grossing over $300 million worldwide. The film had a deeper meaning.
Regardless of the story, everyone was excited about the film since it was Makoto Shinkai’s creation. It was a fascinating watch, but only a few people know the true inspiration behind the creation of Suzume. The director was inspired by 2011’s Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which was the most powerful earthquake in the history of Japan.
Suzume Holds A Real Life Significance Suzume (Credit: Toho)
Suzume had a worldwide release in 2023. It instantly became one of the most successful anime films, grossing over $300 million worldwide. The film had a deeper meaning.
- 4/12/2024
- by Priyanko Chakraborty
- FandomWire
The leaks for the upcoming My Hero Academia Chapter 420 are finally out in Japan and we get to know what happens in the thrilling upcoming chapter of Kohei Horikoshi’s popular manga series. Last week’s chapter presented us with the conclusion of the fight between Deku and Tomura, as well as foreshadowed All For One’s return, as it turned out that a small fragment of All For One’s evil soul was still left in Tomura.
And while Midoriya almost succeeded in swaying Tomura back to normal, the reappearance of All For One Changed everything, as a new battle was about to begin. But, before All For One could do anything, several of Izuku’s allies arrived on the scene!
The upcoming chapter leaks reveal that this is going to be a warm-up chapter, as we see several scenes involving Shota Aizawa, which don’t seem to have...
And while Midoriya almost succeeded in swaying Tomura back to normal, the reappearance of All For One Changed everything, as a new battle was about to begin. But, before All For One could do anything, several of Izuku’s allies arrived on the scene!
The upcoming chapter leaks reveal that this is going to be a warm-up chapter, as we see several scenes involving Shota Aizawa, which don’t seem to have...
- 4/12/2024
- by Arthur S. Poe
- Fiction Horizon
Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru (“Grandpa and Grandma are Rejuvenated”), an upcoming TV anime based on the romantic comedy web manga about an elderly couple who spontaneously regain their youth, has revealed a new trailer, new cast additions, a new key visual and the opening and ending theme song performers for the series. Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru will broadcast in Japan beginning on April 7, 2024. The new cast members include: Shota voiced by Junta Terashima (Shiki Ando in Paradox Live The Animation ) Shota character visual Yoshiaki voiced by Kazuyuki Okitsu (Nick in Magical Destroyers ) Yoshiaki character visual Kaede voiced by Tomo Sakurai (Asuka Sora in The World God Only Knows ) Kaede character visual koresawa performs the opening theme song for the series, which is entitled “Kimi ga Ojii-chan Atashi ga Obaa-chan” (“You're Grandpa I'm Grandma”). The ending theme, entitled “Soitoge Yo-yo!!” (“Until Death Do Us part Yo-yo!!”), is performed in character by Shozo (voiced...
- 3/1/2024
- by Paul Chapman
- Crunchyroll
Kinji Fukasaku's last film was a production worthy of his lifetime achievements in the field, since “Battle Royale” caused much controversy; it was banned outright or deliberately excluded from distribution in several countries, but at the same time, it also influenced a great number of movies and many filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino and “The Hunger Games”.
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At the beginning of the new millennium, unemployment has reached 15 percent, with 10 million people left without a job, while school violence has reached unprecedented levels. In order to control the youth, the desperate government votes in the ‘Battle Royale' law, which states that each year, students from a randomly chosen class will be transferred to a secluded island where they will have to fight to the death, to the last person standing.
The story, which is based upon the homonymous novel by Takami Koushun,...
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At the beginning of the new millennium, unemployment has reached 15 percent, with 10 million people left without a job, while school violence has reached unprecedented levels. In order to control the youth, the desperate government votes in the ‘Battle Royale' law, which states that each year, students from a randomly chosen class will be transferred to a secluded island where they will have to fight to the death, to the last person standing.
The story, which is based upon the homonymous novel by Takami Koushun,...
- 2/27/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Beloved shojo manga Kimi ni Todoke first hit the pages of Bessatsu Margaret in 2006 and ran until 2017, leaving such a lasting impact that a third season of the anime adaptation is due out later this year . But there's another reason that 2024 is Karuho Shiina's year, since it was just announced that the magazine will host a new series debut titled Toppu to Beat , her first since we met Sawako and Shota eighteen years ago, with the first chapter releasing March 13 . The story is set in a small seaside town in Hokkaido and follows a soul-searching high school girl named Nike and a boy often absent from school called Nemo. Toppu to Beat official art Related: Akira Amano Exhibition Packs 53 Iconic Characters into Official Visual Crunchyroll streams the 2009 anime adaptation of Kimi ni Todoke from Production I.G, describing the story as such: Sawako Kuronuma has had a difficult time fitting in.
- 2/13/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Inoue Takehiko’s epic sports anime The First Slam Dunk begins with a showdown between two high school basketball teams: Shohoku’s scrappy over-achievers and Sannoh’s well-oiled winning machine. We don’t know any of the players involved yet or what this match really means to them. All we get is the game itself—and it’s one hell of a spectacle.
Adapted by Inoue from his own manga series, the film uses a mixture of computer-generated and hand-drawn animation to capture the explosive physicality of basketball. The players’ movements are fluid and lifelike, with just a little extra oomph added to their more ostentatious moments. And the film’s sound design is enveloping, neatly mimicking the sound of a ball as it rolls off a player’s fingertips and lending a seismic boom to each slam dunk.
The film’s hyperkinetic style turns Shohoku and Sannoh’s showdown into an exhilarating experience.
Adapted by Inoue from his own manga series, the film uses a mixture of computer-generated and hand-drawn animation to capture the explosive physicality of basketball. The players’ movements are fluid and lifelike, with just a little extra oomph added to their more ostentatious moments. And the film’s sound design is enveloping, neatly mimicking the sound of a ball as it rolls off a player’s fingertips and lending a seismic boom to each slam dunk.
The film’s hyperkinetic style turns Shohoku and Sannoh’s showdown into an exhilarating experience.
- 7/23/2023
- by Ross McIndoe
- Slant Magazine
Shota Kadomatsu (Yuta Kishi) is a troubled student. He went out on a few dates with girls, but they never developed into a relationship. Shota decides to transfer to a new all-boys high school as it's near 4 different all-girls high schools. Shota enjoys his time at his new high school but still struggles to find a girlfriend. This is because he is assigned to G class, which is for idiots, otaku, and delinquent students. The students in G class also wear a different school uniform, which is easily recognizable by the girls at other high schools. The G class students are not popular at all with the female students.
- 7/7/2023
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Over the course of his career, Eichiro Hasumi has been making quite a name for himself directing entertaining genre features, even though the majority of them is somewhat forgettable. Apart from “Assassination Classroom: Graduation” he is perhaps best known for this entries into the “Resident Evil”-franchise, “Infinite Darkness” and the upcoming “Death Island”, which cemented the reputation of the animated entries of the franchise being in many ways superior to the lukewarm features by the likes of Paul W.S. Anderson. In between these last two projects, he directed “re:member” (also known as “Re/Member”), which was released on Netflix, and which is his take on the horror genre, blending ideas from J-horror, the slasher genre and time travel movies.
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The story centres around six high-school students, with Asuka (Kanna Hashimoto) essentially being the main protagonist. One day, which begins seemingly normal,...
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The story centres around six high-school students, with Asuka (Kanna Hashimoto) essentially being the main protagonist. One day, which begins seemingly normal,...
- 5/7/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
With the oversaturated world of teen coming-of-age content on Netflix, it is easy to fall into a rabbit hole of overly sexualized teen shows that just glamorize the tricky parts of being a teen. Compared to the western teen world, the east prefers to teach life lessons through cute little romance shows inspired by popular anime or manga. Japan is not new to high school dramas, and “From Me to You” rekindles fond memories of school rather than bringing anything new to the screen. As someone who hasn’t watched the anime, I can absolutely understand why it would’ve been translated into a live-action show for high school students in Japan. The show subtly tackles issues such as school bullying, feeling like you’ve brought a knife in a gunfight, high-school exams, the fear of growing up, and many such struggles of a school student without ever coming across as a life lesson.
- 3/31/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are returning with the rest of the original cast of ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ to voice their characters in an anime series adaptation of the 2010 action comedy.The Edgar Wright-directed film, that has already been turned into a video game, is getting the animated reboot thanks to Netflix, which has announced the remake is on the way.Based on the hugely popular Bryan Lee O’Malley-created graphic novel series, the first volume of which was published in 2004, the film focuses on the eponymous hero, played by Cera, as he pursues a relationship with delivery woman Ramona Flowers (Winstead) and attempts to defeat her seven evil exes.Netflix said on Thursday (30.03.23): “Scott Pilgrim has already been through so much, but he’s about to take on the world again.“The gangly bass player was first introduced in Bryan Lee O’Malley’s hit comic series,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Aaron Tinney
- Bang Showbiz
The world of Asian cinema has seen a vast share of their most recent fare emanating from manga adaptations, with titles ranging from Rurouni Kenshin, “Death Note,” Blade of the Immortal, and Gantz finding their inspiration coming from its pages. Such is the origins of the latest Netflix release in Eiichiro Hasumi's adaptation of “Re/Member,” which started out as a multi-year run in the early 2010s and was followed by an anime adaptation several years later before this current live-action feature.
After what seems to be a normal day, high-school student Asuka (Kanna Hashimoto) sees the ghost of the dead student Haruka at school, asking her to find the girl's dead body. When she and Takahiro (Gordon Maeda), Atsushi, (Fuju Kamio), Rumiko (Maika Yamamoto), Rie (Mayu Yokota), and Shota (Kotaro Daigo), a group of students, set out to find the various scattered pieces of Haruka's corpse buried in the school,...
After what seems to be a normal day, high-school student Asuka (Kanna Hashimoto) sees the ghost of the dead student Haruka at school, asking her to find the girl's dead body. When she and Takahiro (Gordon Maeda), Atsushi, (Fuju Kamio), Rumiko (Maika Yamamoto), Rie (Mayu Yokota), and Shota (Kotaro Daigo), a group of students, set out to find the various scattered pieces of Haruka's corpse buried in the school,...
- 3/27/2023
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Co-directed by Shota Koseki, who also stars in the movie, and Kentaro Kishi, who also acts as a Dp, “The Waxing and Waning of Life” takes an unusual approach to the concept of addiction, by combining it with a number of other issues, through an experimental/art house approach.
“The Waxing and Waning of Life” is screening at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival
Yusaku has just finished his rehab and is taken in by his brother Shota, who wants, though, to interview him for a screenplay he wants to direct about Yusaku’s life. The latter reluctantly reveals parts of his life and particularly his experience in rehab, which emerges, though, as a rather intense experience with the whole procedure being closer to how cults work. That the person in charge, Matsunaga, was a former boxer who did not shy away from being verbally and physically abusive to the addicts...
“The Waxing and Waning of Life” is screening at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival
Yusaku has just finished his rehab and is taken in by his brother Shota, who wants, though, to interview him for a screenplay he wants to direct about Yusaku’s life. The latter reluctantly reveals parts of his life and particularly his experience in rehab, which emerges, though, as a rather intense experience with the whole procedure being closer to how cults work. That the person in charge, Matsunaga, was a former boxer who did not shy away from being verbally and physically abusive to the addicts...
- 7/23/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Following the unexpected and quite significant success of “Midnight Swan”, which took home the Best Film and Best Actor Awards for Tsuyoshi Kusanagi by the Japanese Academy, it was expected that Eiji Uchida would find access to the highest echelons of the local movie industry, as the presence of Hiroshi Abe and the overall production quality of “Offbeat Cops” highlights.
Offbeat Cops is screening on New York Asian Film Festival
Tsukasa Naruse is a workaholic detective working on homicide cases, who, as the movie begins, is researching a group of conmen who rob old people after giving them a call posing as the police to discover if they hide money in their houses. His methods, however, are not exactly by the book, as his new partner, young Shota Sakamoto soon discovers. At the same time, his obsession with his job has led him to a divorce and a daughter, Noriko,...
Offbeat Cops is screening on New York Asian Film Festival
Tsukasa Naruse is a workaholic detective working on homicide cases, who, as the movie begins, is researching a group of conmen who rob old people after giving them a call posing as the police to discover if they hide money in their houses. His methods, however, are not exactly by the book, as his new partner, young Shota Sakamoto soon discovers. At the same time, his obsession with his job has led him to a divorce and a daughter, Noriko,...
- 7/23/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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