BloodYear: 2011Director: Ten Shimoyama Stars: Aya Sugimoto, Jun Kaname, Kanji TsudaStudio: Well-Go Usampaa Rating: Not RatedRunning Time: 84 MinsVampire films are my favorite horror subgenre. One of the things that I look for in a vampire film, is this film dark and gothic enough? Even though there have been some good action vampire films that I’ve seen in the past like “Vampire Girl vs.
- 4/15/2011
- by Anthony T
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Meskada" (2010)
Directed by Josh Sternfeld
Released by Anchor Bay Entertainment
When this thriller premiered at Tribeca this past spring, Alison Willmore wrote, "the second film from writer/director Josh Sternfeld ("Winter Solstice") has ambitions reaching beyond being a straightforward police procedural," though critics, including her, were mixed about the end result. Nick Stahl and Rachel Nichols star as small-town sleuths who investigate a botched home invasion case that claims the life of a young child in an affluent community and enflames class divisions when the main suspects are from the poorer community nearby. Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep's second daughter to go into the family profession, makes her film debut.
"Anywhere USA" (2008)
Directed by Chusy Haney-Jardine
Released by Cinevolve Studios
Winner of a Spirit of Independence prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Chusy Haney-Jardine's collection of three comic vignettes involves a...
"Meskada" (2010)
Directed by Josh Sternfeld
Released by Anchor Bay Entertainment
When this thriller premiered at Tribeca this past spring, Alison Willmore wrote, "the second film from writer/director Josh Sternfeld ("Winter Solstice") has ambitions reaching beyond being a straightforward police procedural," though critics, including her, were mixed about the end result. Nick Stahl and Rachel Nichols star as small-town sleuths who investigate a botched home invasion case that claims the life of a young child in an affluent community and enflames class divisions when the main suspects are from the poorer community nearby. Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep's second daughter to go into the family profession, makes her film debut.
"Anywhere USA" (2008)
Directed by Chusy Haney-Jardine
Released by Cinevolve Studios
Winner of a Spirit of Independence prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Chusy Haney-Jardine's collection of three comic vignettes involves a...
- 3/22/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
It's a very mixed bag this week for horror title releases. We're not sure how Dread-worthy the supernatural drama Hereafter (directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Matt Damon, Bryce Dallas Howard and Jay Mohr) is but have included it because of its afterlife aspects.
On the list you'll also find a couple of schlocky monster movies, one a double-feature of classic Gamera entries and the other from the Syfy channel featuring Sharktopus (a sea creature that is both a shark and an octopus) with an over-acting Eric Roberts. In addition Syfy is releasing its mockbuster Battle of Los Angeles to take advantage of the current Aliens-Invading-Los-Angeles craze.
Hereafter
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Starring Matt Damon, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jay Mohr, Cécile de France, Frankie McLaren, George McLaren
George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality.
On the list you'll also find a couple of schlocky monster movies, one a double-feature of classic Gamera entries and the other from the Syfy channel featuring Sharktopus (a sea creature that is both a shark and an octopus) with an over-acting Eric Roberts. In addition Syfy is releasing its mockbuster Battle of Los Angeles to take advantage of the current Aliens-Invading-Los-Angeles craze.
Hereafter
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Starring Matt Damon, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jay Mohr, Cécile de France, Frankie McLaren, George McLaren
George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality.
- 3/15/2011
- by kwlow
- DreadCentral.com
Blood-lusters everywhere rejoice, for Ten Shimoyama's Japanese vampire flick 'Blood' will be hitting North American DVD and Blu-ray shelves on 15 March 2011 thanks to the rights being acquired by Go USA. Aya Sugimoto (below) and Guts Ishimatsu star alongside Jun Kaname, Satoshi Matsuda, Hidejiro Mizumoto, Yuri Morishita, Atsushi Narasaka, Rin Sakuragi, Harumi Sone, Masahiro Sudo, Kanji Tsuda and Sayo Yamaguchi. Check out the synopsis and the bloody trailer below....
- 1/13/2011
- Horror Asylum
Well Go USA have just announced that it has acquired North American rights to Japanese “erotic” Vampire action/horror flick Blood, helmed by Ten Shimoyama, director of the international hit (and all-round superb kick ass, Ninja, action flick) ‘Shinobi.’ Blood stars Aya Sugimoto (Flower & Snake) and Guts Ishimatsu (Black Rain) and will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 15th. You can catch our review of the movie, at the link. Synopsis: Police Detective Hoshino (Kanji Tsuda) investigates the murder of a maid at a mansion belonging to Miyako Rozmberk, a seductive vampire mistress. Ukyo Kuronuma, an Edo-era swordsman who was turned into a vampire by Miyako, is blamed for the crime, but before anything can be done about it Hoshino ends up under Miyako’s spell as well. This leads Hoshino and Ukyo to battle one another for the privilege of staying with Miyako for eternity. Read our...
- 1/12/2011
- 24framespersecond.net
Well Go USA have just announced that it has acquired North American rights to Japanese “erotic” Vampire action/horror flick Blood, helmed by Ten Shimoyama, director of the international hit (and all-round superb kick ass, Ninja, action flick) ‘Shinobi.’ Blood stars Aya Sugimoto (Flower & Snake) and Guts Ishimatsu (Black Rain) and will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 15th. You can catch our review of the movie, at the link. Synopsis: Police Detective Hoshino (Kanji Tsuda) investigates the murder of a maid at a mansion belonging to Miyako Rozmberk, a seductive vampire mistress. Ukyo Kuronuma, an Edo-era swordsman who was turned into a vampire by Miyako, is blamed for the crime, but before anything can be done about it Hoshino ends up under Miyako’s spell as well. This leads Hoshino and Ukyo to battle one another for the privilege of staying with Miyako for eternity. Read our...
- 1/12/2011
- 24framespersecond.net
Well Go USA Acquires North American DVD/Blu-ray Rights To Blood The New Horror Hit from Japan Set for release on DVD and Blu-ray on March 15, 2011 Plano, TX. (January 7, 2011) — Well Go USA announced today that it has acquired North American DVD and Blu-ray rights to the new horror flick Blood, starring Aya Sugimoto (Flower & Snake, Flower & Snake II) and Guts Ishimatsu (Black Rain, Empire of the Sun) and directed by Ten Shimoyama, director of the international hit “Shinobi”. Blood is one of the most highly anticipated horror movies to come out of Japan this year. Shimoyama mixes “erotic” vampires with ancient Samurai warriors making Blood the next evergreen horror classic from Japan. Blood will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 15, 2011. “Blood” is a great addition to our growing DVD and Blu-ray library and an important release for us in early [...]...
- 1/9/2011
- by admin
- Horror News
Well Go USA announced today that it has acquired North American DVD and Blu-ray rights to the new horror flick Blood, starring Aya Sugimoto (Flower & Snake, Flower & Snake II) and Guts Ishimatsu (Black Rain, Empire of the Sun) and directed by Ten Shimoyama, director of the international hit “Shinobi”. Blood is one of the most highly anticipated horror movies to come out of Japan this year.
- 1/8/2011
- by Anthony T
Yep, we don't need much more in a movie to get us to watch it than what is contained in the above headline, and thankfully that's exactly what we're gonna get when Blood hits home video courtesy of Well Go USA!
From the Press Release
Well Go USA announced today that it has acquired North American DVD and Blu-ray rights to the new horror flick Blood, starring Aya Sugimoto (Flower & Snake, Flower & Snake II) and Guts Ishimatsu (Black Rain, Empire of the Sun) and directed by Ten Shimoyama, director of the international hit “Shinobi”. Blood is one of the most highly anticipated horror movies to come out of Japan this year. Shimoyama mixes “erotic” vampires with ancient Samurai warriors, making Blood the next evergreen horror classic from Japan. Blood will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 15, 2011.
“Blood is a great addition to our growing DVD and Blu-ray library...
From the Press Release
Well Go USA announced today that it has acquired North American DVD and Blu-ray rights to the new horror flick Blood, starring Aya Sugimoto (Flower & Snake, Flower & Snake II) and Guts Ishimatsu (Black Rain, Empire of the Sun) and directed by Ten Shimoyama, director of the international hit “Shinobi”. Blood is one of the most highly anticipated horror movies to come out of Japan this year. Shimoyama mixes “erotic” vampires with ancient Samurai warriors, making Blood the next evergreen horror classic from Japan. Blood will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 15, 2011.
“Blood is a great addition to our growing DVD and Blu-ray library...
- 1/8/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
I love this poster! Get ready for another cool foreign horror film import coming March 15th called Blood.
From the Press Release:
Well Go USA announced today that it has acquired North American DVD and Blu-ray rights to the new horror flick Blood, starring Aya Sugimoto (Flower & Snake, Flower & Snake II) and Guts Ishimatsu (Black Rain, Empire of the Sun) and directed by Ten Shimoyama, director of the international hit “Shinobi”. Blood is one of the most highly anticipated horror movies to come out of Japan this year. Shimoyama mixes “erotic” vampires with ancient Samurai warriors, making Blood the next evergreen horror classic from Japan. Blood will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 15, 2011.
“Blood is a great addition to our growing DVD and Blu-ray library and an important release for us in early 2011,” said Tony Vandeveerdonk, Executive Vice President for Well Go USA. “Ten Shimoyama’s directing expertise...
From the Press Release:
Well Go USA announced today that it has acquired North American DVD and Blu-ray rights to the new horror flick Blood, starring Aya Sugimoto (Flower & Snake, Flower & Snake II) and Guts Ishimatsu (Black Rain, Empire of the Sun) and directed by Ten Shimoyama, director of the international hit “Shinobi”. Blood is one of the most highly anticipated horror movies to come out of Japan this year. Shimoyama mixes “erotic” vampires with ancient Samurai warriors, making Blood the next evergreen horror classic from Japan. Blood will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 15, 2011.
“Blood is a great addition to our growing DVD and Blu-ray library and an important release for us in early 2011,” said Tony Vandeveerdonk, Executive Vice President for Well Go USA. “Ten Shimoyama’s directing expertise...
- 1/8/2011
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
Well Go USA announced today that it has acquired North American DVD and Blu-ray rights to the new horror flick Blood , starring Aya Sugimoto ( Flower & Snake, Flower & Snake II ) and Guts Ishimatsu ( Black Rain , Empire of the Sun ) and directed by Ten Shimoyama, director of the international hit Shinobi . Not to be confused with this Blood , the film mixes .erotic. vampires with ancient Samurai warriors and will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 15, 2011. Synopsis: Police Detective Hoshino (Kanji Tsuda) investigates the murder of a maid at a mansion belonging to Miyako Rozmberk (Aya Sugimoto), a seductive vampire mistress and .cougar. all in one. Ukyo Kuronuma (Jun Kaname), an Edo-era swordsman who was turned into a vampire by Miyako, is blamed for the...
- 1/7/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
For those of you wondering who I am, I decided it was time so start using my real name on Twitch. So even though the onderhond moniker will continue to reign high on my own site, from now I'll be writing under my own name here at Twitch.
Vampires are the new zombies, even in Japan. And so we're starting to see a surge of Japanese live action vampire flicks. The latest to join the hype is Ten Shimoyama. His films often go by largely unnoticed, but when I stumbled upon the trailer of Blood by accident I was immediately hooked. The final result turned out to be just as pleasing.
I could say I'm a fan of Shimoyama's films, but the truth is that even though I appreciate his work a great deal, his name fails to stick in my consciousness. Shinobi, St. John's Wort and his segment in...
Vampires are the new zombies, even in Japan. And so we're starting to see a surge of Japanese live action vampire flicks. The latest to join the hype is Ten Shimoyama. His films often go by largely unnoticed, but when I stumbled upon the trailer of Blood by accident I was immediately hooked. The final result turned out to be just as pleasing.
I could say I'm a fan of Shimoyama's films, but the truth is that even though I appreciate his work a great deal, his name fails to stick in my consciousness. Shinobi, St. John's Wort and his segment in...
- 5/14/2010
- Screen Anarchy
From director Ten Shimoyama, who gave us one of the better ninja movies in recent years with “Shinobi: Heart Under Blade” and starring the lovely Aya Sugimoto (“Flower And Snake”), comes the erotic vampire movie “Blood”, which arrives on DVD in the UK courtesy of Mvm Entertainment on May 3, 2010. The DVD will come with a buttload of trailers, including a theatrical trailer, original Japanese trailer, Sexy TV spot, Action TV spot, and Vision TV spot; it will also come with trailers for the movies “Dororo” and “Geisha Vs. Ninjas”. Check out four clips from the movie (Fyi: the last one is Nsfw). ‘The Hunger’ meets ‘Countess Dracula’ by way of ‘Blade’ and ‘The Matrix’ in Blood, an erotically charged vampire shocker with more bite than most contemporary horror offerings and featuring enough sizzling sex scenes, lashings of swordplay and stylized martial arts action to keep every genre fan happy.
- 5/11/2010
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Not to be confused with Chris Nahon's Blood: The Last Vampire, as this writer may have done at some point [ahem], Ten Shimoyama's Blood is a different animal altogether and to celebrate its release on DVD we have 4 rather tasty clips for you below. The plot goes something like this...
"Recently demoted within the ranks of the police force for exposing several highly respected officials involved in a political scandal, Detective Hoshino (Kanji Tsuda) is reduced to investigating long-shelved, unsolved cases just before their respective statutes of limitations expire. His latest assignment leads him to the mansion of a voluptuous, reclusive heiress, Miyako Rozmberk (Aya Sugimoto), to investigate the 14-year-old murder of one of her former maids. After claiming she has already told the police everything she knows concerning the case, Miyako announces to Hoshino that she knows the identity of the man responsible for the killing, identifying him...
"Recently demoted within the ranks of the police force for exposing several highly respected officials involved in a political scandal, Detective Hoshino (Kanji Tsuda) is reduced to investigating long-shelved, unsolved cases just before their respective statutes of limitations expire. His latest assignment leads him to the mansion of a voluptuous, reclusive heiress, Miyako Rozmberk (Aya Sugimoto), to investigate the 14-year-old murder of one of her former maids. After claiming she has already told the police everything she knows concerning the case, Miyako announces to Hoshino that she knows the identity of the man responsible for the killing, identifying him...
- 5/11/2010
- Screen Anarchy
It’s be easy to write off upcoming Japanese exploitation / vampire film Blood as nothing more than a quick and dirty cash in. After all it does boast a title remarkably similar to a hotly anticipated, similarly themed, much higher budgeted film due for release at roughly the same time - that being Chris Nahon’s Blood: The Last Vampire, of Last Blood in Japan - and is built around a star known far more for her body than her body of work. But here’s the thing: While Aya Sugimoto has, indeed, built her career by baring her assets - most notably as the lead in the hyper-sexual Flower And Snake films - she doesn’t do low budget trash. Exploitation film? Absolutely, but Sugimoto’s films are consistently very well made pictures that frequently end up on the more daring side of the festival circuit. She’s sexed...
- 3/15/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
ADV Films
The latest example of J-horror to reach our shores, Takeshi Furusawa's "Ghost Train" demonstrates that the increasingly tired genre may be in need of a serious overhaul. The familiar elements are there, including the requisite pale-skinned, black-haired, jerky-moving ghosts, but this would-be spooky tale of mysterious disappearances along apparently haunted train tracks never quite leaves the station. The film recently received its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's Two Boots Pioneer Theater.
As is often the case, the heroine seeking to get to the bottom of the mystery is a plucky high-school student. Nana (Erika Sawajiri) not only manages to be at the top of her class but also cares for her kid sister, Koriko (Aya Sugimoto), while their mother is spending an extended time in the hospital suffering from heart trouble.
The girls travel to school by train, a trip that becomes more problematic when first a little boy and then Koriko go missing after gaining possession of a mysterious train pass. It turns out that they are but the latest in a string of commuters who have disappeared without explanation. Nana sets out to find them with the help of a conductor (Shun Oguri) who keeps halting his trains after seeing a ghostly figure on the tracks.
The usual thematic and visual elements are handled in less than exciting fashion here, with the derivative film lacking the assured qualities of many of its predecessors. Although the director manages to sustain a reasonably scary atmosphere, true chills are in short supply: A subplot involving one of Nana's classmates proves unrewarding, and the climactic sequence in which the monster is ultimately revealed is more cheesy than horrific.
The latest example of J-horror to reach our shores, Takeshi Furusawa's "Ghost Train" demonstrates that the increasingly tired genre may be in need of a serious overhaul. The familiar elements are there, including the requisite pale-skinned, black-haired, jerky-moving ghosts, but this would-be spooky tale of mysterious disappearances along apparently haunted train tracks never quite leaves the station. The film recently received its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's Two Boots Pioneer Theater.
As is often the case, the heroine seeking to get to the bottom of the mystery is a plucky high-school student. Nana (Erika Sawajiri) not only manages to be at the top of her class but also cares for her kid sister, Koriko (Aya Sugimoto), while their mother is spending an extended time in the hospital suffering from heart trouble.
The girls travel to school by train, a trip that becomes more problematic when first a little boy and then Koriko go missing after gaining possession of a mysterious train pass. It turns out that they are but the latest in a string of commuters who have disappeared without explanation. Nana sets out to find them with the help of a conductor (Shun Oguri) who keeps halting his trains after seeing a ghostly figure on the tracks.
The usual thematic and visual elements are handled in less than exciting fashion here, with the derivative film lacking the assured qualities of many of its predecessors. Although the director manages to sustain a reasonably scary atmosphere, true chills are in short supply: A subplot involving one of Nana's classmates proves unrewarding, and the climactic sequence in which the monster is ultimately revealed is more cheesy than horrific.
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