Hiroyuki Tanaka (Kanikosen, Blessing Bell, Drive) is a very big favorite of mine. Largely unknown in the West (unless you're part of a privileged fest crowd that is), Tanaka is a director with plenty of commercial appeal who failed to ride the (somewhat random) wave of popularity that many other Asian films enjoyed in the early years of the new millennium. If you want a taste of what he is capable of, Monday is probably your best and most entertaining entry point.There are still plenty of films out there that lack a proper English-friendly release (take Kyoshin, Tenshi no Tamago, Symbol) but in those cases I can at least sympathize with the financial risk of releasing such films over here. Even though Monday isn't without...
- 2/24/2012
- Screen Anarchy
A new Hiroyuki Tanaka film, rejoice! He used to operate on a pretty regular schedule, sadly his last film dates almost 5 years back. By the time I'd finally caught up with his films, it seemed he quit making them. Kanikosen is a welcome come-back for Tanaka and even though it's a little different from his other output, it turned out to be a very enjoyable film indeed.
Tanaka (better known as Sabu) is without a doubt one of my favorite directors. I consider The Blessing Bell a true masterpiece, with Monday and Postman Blues only further proof of his enormous talent. His films are notoriously hard to find on DVD (English subbed that is, they seem to appreciate Tanaka in Germany a great deal more), which is quite strange considering how well-received his films are on festivals.
With Kanikosen (or The Crab Cannery Ship), Tanaka reunites his love for transportation...
Tanaka (better known as Sabu) is without a doubt one of my favorite directors. I consider The Blessing Bell a true masterpiece, with Monday and Postman Blues only further proof of his enormous talent. His films are notoriously hard to find on DVD (English subbed that is, they seem to appreciate Tanaka in Germany a great deal more), which is quite strange considering how well-received his films are on festivals.
With Kanikosen (or The Crab Cannery Ship), Tanaka reunites his love for transportation...
- 5/3/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Festival director Manuel Ewald kindly informed me that the full program and timetable for this year’s Asia Filmfest that takes place in Munich from October 29th to November 8th and with a smaller selection in Berlin from November 13th to November 15th are now available online.
All films are listed below by the country of origin below with internal links with more information and (in most cases) trailers:
Japan
Departures, Blood: The Last Vampire, Crows Zero II, Evangelion 2.0: You can (not) advance, Goemon, Ichi, K-20: Legend of the Mask, Love Exposure, Samurai Princess, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, Yatterman, Lady Snowblood, Akira, Perfect Blue, Samurai Fiction, Blessing Bell, Sakuran, Dainipponjin, Kids Return, Kikujiros Sommer, Adrenalin Drive, Waterboys
China/Hong Kong
Vengeance, Assembly, The Beast Stalker, Connected, Ip Man, Overheard, Red Cliff, Shinjuku Incident, The Sniper, Enter The Dragon, The Flying Guillotine, Police Story, Once Upon A time in China,...
All films are listed below by the country of origin below with internal links with more information and (in most cases) trailers:
Japan
Departures, Blood: The Last Vampire, Crows Zero II, Evangelion 2.0: You can (not) advance, Goemon, Ichi, K-20: Legend of the Mask, Love Exposure, Samurai Princess, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, Yatterman, Lady Snowblood, Akira, Perfect Blue, Samurai Fiction, Blessing Bell, Sakuran, Dainipponjin, Kids Return, Kikujiros Sommer, Adrenalin Drive, Waterboys
China/Hong Kong
Vengeance, Assembly, The Beast Stalker, Connected, Ip Man, Overheard, Red Cliff, Shinjuku Incident, The Sniper, Enter The Dragon, The Flying Guillotine, Police Story, Once Upon A time in China,...
- 10/15/2009
- by Ulrik
- Affenheimtheater
The 2008 edition of the Reel Asian Film Festival here in Toronto - one of the oldest and largest Asian focused film festivals in the world - has just announced their lineup for 2008 and, go ahead, ask me how I feel about Twitch being a sponsor of this year’s festival? Sure, I’ve always felt good about working with Reel Asian, they’re good people who bring in excellent films, but this has got to be by far their Twitchiest edition yet.
First of all, we’re co-presenting two programs of late night short films, which is always a fun thing to do, but then things get rolling with the feature lineup. The opening film? Kenneth Bi’s The Drummer, which we’ve written about extensively in these pages. Closing? A little Japanese picture called Adrift in Tokyo, which I firmly believe is one of the five best films in...
First of all, we’re co-presenting two programs of late night short films, which is always a fun thing to do, but then things get rolling with the feature lineup. The opening film? Kenneth Bi’s The Drummer, which we’ve written about extensively in these pages. Closing? A little Japanese picture called Adrift in Tokyo, which I firmly believe is one of the five best films in...
- 10/21/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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