Presented by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, and Japan Society
February 15-24, 2024 at Japan Society
and partner venues in NYC
New York, NY – Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan Society are proud to announce the eighth installment of the Aca Cinema Project film series – Family Portrait: Japanese Family in Flux – an ongoing initiative fostered by the Government of Japan to increase awareness and appreciation of Japanese films and filmmakers in the United States. The Aca Cinema Project has presented events in both New York and LA since 2021, and its upcoming edition will showcase over nine contemporary and classic films from February 15-24, 2024 all with the central theme of the modern family. The bonds of the Japanese family are often revered in the West, and this series will both celebrate these traditions as well as call into question their reality and relevance in our quickly changing modern world.
February 15-24, 2024 at Japan Society
and partner venues in NYC
New York, NY – Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan Society are proud to announce the eighth installment of the Aca Cinema Project film series – Family Portrait: Japanese Family in Flux – an ongoing initiative fostered by the Government of Japan to increase awareness and appreciation of Japanese films and filmmakers in the United States. The Aca Cinema Project has presented events in both New York and LA since 2021, and its upcoming edition will showcase over nine contemporary and classic films from February 15-24, 2024 all with the central theme of the modern family. The bonds of the Japanese family are often revered in the West, and this series will both celebrate these traditions as well as call into question their reality and relevance in our quickly changing modern world.
- 1/24/2024
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
As part of the Aca Cinema Project––”an ongoing initiative fostered by the Government of Japan to increase awareness and appreciation of Japanese films and filmmakers in the United States”––Japan Society will run “Family Portrait: Japanese Family in Flux” from February 15-24. A mix of American premieres and repertory showings, this series puts “bonds of the Japanese family” front and center to “both celebrate these traditions as well as call into question their reality and relevance in our quickly changing modern world.”
U.S. premieres include Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s Yoko, starring Rinko Kikuchi, and Keiko Tsuruoka’s Tsugaru Lacquer Girl. A special spotlight is given to Ryota Nakano, whose A Long Goodbye and exquisitely titled Her Love Boils Bathwater will be making New York debuts; his 2020 feature The Asadas also plays.
Repertory screenings will be held for Kohei Oguri’s Muddy River, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata, Kore-eda’s Still Walking,...
U.S. premieres include Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s Yoko, starring Rinko Kikuchi, and Keiko Tsuruoka’s Tsugaru Lacquer Girl. A special spotlight is given to Ryota Nakano, whose A Long Goodbye and exquisitely titled Her Love Boils Bathwater will be making New York debuts; his 2020 feature The Asadas also plays.
Repertory screenings will be held for Kohei Oguri’s Muddy River, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata, Kore-eda’s Still Walking,...
- 1/17/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
China-set drama Stonewalling, co-directed by husband-and-wife team Ryuji Otsuka and Huang Ji, won best narrative feature at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards, which is celebrating its 60th edition this year.
The film, which premiered in Venice and won best film at Hong Kong film festival’s Young Cinema Competition, follows a young woman in mainland China grappling with issues around career, relationships, health and fertility. It also won best editing, which was shared by Otsuka and Taiwan’s Liao Ching-sung, with the latter winning his first Golden Horse award after 12 nominations stretching back four decades.
The awards were evenly spread among the nominated films. Taiwan’s Wu Kang-ren won best leading actor for his role as a deaf-mute in Malaysian drama Abang Adik. Best actress went to 12-year-old Audrey Lin for her role in Trouble Girl, making her the youngest ever best actress winner at the Golden Horse awards.
Best...
The film, which premiered in Venice and won best film at Hong Kong film festival’s Young Cinema Competition, follows a young woman in mainland China grappling with issues around career, relationships, health and fertility. It also won best editing, which was shared by Otsuka and Taiwan’s Liao Ching-sung, with the latter winning his first Golden Horse award after 12 nominations stretching back four decades.
The awards were evenly spread among the nominated films. Taiwan’s Wu Kang-ren won best leading actor for his role as a deaf-mute in Malaysian drama Abang Adik. Best actress went to 12-year-old Audrey Lin for her role in Trouble Girl, making her the youngest ever best actress winner at the Golden Horse awards.
Best...
- 11/25/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
The Japan Academy Film Prize Association held the 46th edition of its awards ceremony on March 10, 2023. The nominees are selected by industry professionals from the pool of film releases between January 1 and December 31, 2022 which must have screened in Tokyo cinemas. Award categories are modelled after Hollywood's Academy Awards®.
Following its success at the recent Blue Ribbon Awards, and leading with 13 nominations in 12 categories, Kei Ishikawa's “A Man” walks away with 8 Japan Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. The full list of winners is described below.
Picture of the Year
A Man
Shin Ultraman
Phases of the Moon
Anime Supremacy!
Wandering
Team from A Man Animation of the Year
Inu-Oh
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Suzume
One Piece Film Red
The First Slam Dunk
Director of the Year
Kei Ishikawa – A Man
Takashi Koizumi – The Pass: Last...
Following its success at the recent Blue Ribbon Awards, and leading with 13 nominations in 12 categories, Kei Ishikawa's “A Man” walks away with 8 Japan Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. The full list of winners is described below.
Picture of the Year
A Man
Shin Ultraman
Phases of the Moon
Anime Supremacy!
Wandering
Team from A Man Animation of the Year
Inu-Oh
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Suzume
One Piece Film Red
The First Slam Dunk
Director of the Year
Kei Ishikawa – A Man
Takashi Koizumi – The Pass: Last...
- 3/15/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
One of the prestigious national cinema awards in Japan presented by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists, the 65th edition of the Blue Ribbon Awards announced its winners on February 24, 2023. The nominees are selected from movies released in 2022 within the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Leading with 6 nominations, A Man by Kei Ishikawa, wins Best Film while Plan 75 by Chie Hayakawa picks up Best Director and Best Actress for Chieko Baisho. The full list of winners is described below.
Best Film
A Man
Kingdom 2: To Distant Lands
Small, Slow But Steady
Missing
Silent Parade
Dr Coto’s Clinic
Plan 75
Motherhood
Fragments of the Last Will
Wandering
A Man Best Director
Kei Ishikawa – A Man
Shinzo Katayama – Missing
Takahisa Zeze – Tombi: Father and Son; Fragments of the Last Will
Chie Hayakawa – Plan 75
Ryuichi Hiroki – 2 Women, Motherhood; Phases of the Moon
Best Actor
Sadao Abe – Lesson in Murder; I am...
Best Film
A Man
Kingdom 2: To Distant Lands
Small, Slow But Steady
Missing
Silent Parade
Dr Coto’s Clinic
Plan 75
Motherhood
Fragments of the Last Will
Wandering
A Man Best Director
Kei Ishikawa – A Man
Shinzo Katayama – Missing
Takahisa Zeze – Tombi: Father and Son; Fragments of the Last Will
Chie Hayakawa – Plan 75
Ryuichi Hiroki – 2 Women, Motherhood; Phases of the Moon
Best Actor
Sadao Abe – Lesson in Murder; I am...
- 2/28/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Chicago, Il – Asian Pop-Up Cinema today announced a lineup of films showcasing Japanese cinema opening weekend March 18-19 for its 16th Season running March 18- April 16. While many films released theatrically have not been themed Covid-19, opening weekend explores Japanese life, loneliness, and people’s desire for connection during and after the pandemic, Japanese Americans living here during WWII, and new indie films recently released in Japan.
Since its inception, Asian Pop-Up Cinema has hosted an impressive lineup of film directors, producers, and major talent. This season brings Japanese guests to Chicago for the first time since the pandemic. They will present their latest work, share their stories, and showcase their society and how it has adapted to change in recent years.
The 16th Season of Asian Pop-Up Cinema opens at AMC Evanston 12 with Variety and The Japan Times film critic and Apuc’s Advisory Board Member, Mark Schilling hosting...
Since its inception, Asian Pop-Up Cinema has hosted an impressive lineup of film directors, producers, and major talent. This season brings Japanese guests to Chicago for the first time since the pandemic. They will present their latest work, share their stories, and showcase their society and how it has adapted to change in recent years.
The 16th Season of Asian Pop-Up Cinema opens at AMC Evanston 12 with Variety and The Japan Times film critic and Apuc’s Advisory Board Member, Mark Schilling hosting...
- 2/17/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
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The 27th edition of Busan International Film Festival will open with Scent of Wind by the Iranian director Hadi Mohaghegh and close with A Man by Japan’s Kei Ishikawa.
Launched in 1996, Busan has long been considered Asia’s premiere film festival, famous both for launching the careers of exciting new Korean and Asian auteurs, as well as its festive beachfront vibe, with tented restaurants serving soju and Korean seafood specialities into the wee hours.
This year, Busan festival director Heo Moon-young has promised an edition that represents “a full recovery” from the pandemic, restoring various programs and forums that were interrupted over the past two years due to the Seoul government’s social distancing measures. In 2022, the festival will screen 354 films from 71 countries, with various satellite events happening across town.
Scent of Wind is the fourth film by Mohaghegh, whose feature film...
The 27th edition of Busan International Film Festival will open with Scent of Wind by the Iranian director Hadi Mohaghegh and close with A Man by Japan’s Kei Ishikawa.
Launched in 1996, Busan has long been considered Asia’s premiere film festival, famous both for launching the careers of exciting new Korean and Asian auteurs, as well as its festive beachfront vibe, with tented restaurants serving soju and Korean seafood specialities into the wee hours.
This year, Busan festival director Heo Moon-young has promised an edition that represents “a full recovery” from the pandemic, restoring various programs and forums that were interrupted over the past two years due to the Seoul government’s social distancing measures. In 2022, the festival will screen 354 films from 71 countries, with various satellite events happening across town.
Scent of Wind is the fourth film by Mohaghegh, whose feature film...
- 9/12/2022
- by Soomee Park
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A question we all sometimes ask ourselves is if we truly know the people we are surrounded with, especially those we are intimately connected to. Occasionally, a secret of greater magnitude shakes our confidence in those we love, but what is the limit? Is there a betrayal of greater proportions we can forgive and continue loving the person, once we are given a palpable reason for it? Is there a reason good enough? Kei Ishikawa gives us such a scenario in his slow-burning, but nevertheless attention-grabbing adaptation of the eponymous novel by Japanese writer Keiichiro Hirano, in his third feature film that has just had its world premiere in Venice film festival’s Orizzonti program.
A Man is screening at Venice International Film Festival
If there is an initial excitement about an almost obvious crime element, it is soon replaced by the realization that there is something much more...
A Man is screening at Venice International Film Festival
If there is an initial excitement about an almost obvious crime element, it is soon replaced by the realization that there is something much more...
- 9/5/2022
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Click here to read the full article.
The existential drift of Japan’s post-bubble “lost generation” gets the mystery thriller treatment in Kei Ishikawa’s Venice Horizons entry, A Man.
Based on the novel of the same name by Japanese author Keiichiro Hirano, A Man follows a troubled lawyer (Satoshi Tsumabuki) who is drawn into a web of mystery when a former client (played by a soulful Sakura Ando, star of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters) asks him to investigate the mysterious past of her deceased husband (a beguiling Masataka Kubota). The attorney encounters an array of colorful characters in his pursuit of the identify of this man who lived his life as a different person — but as he comes closer to the shocking truth, mixed feelings about the nature of his own place in the world steadily creep up on him.
“Shochiku came to me with...
The existential drift of Japan’s post-bubble “lost generation” gets the mystery thriller treatment in Kei Ishikawa’s Venice Horizons entry, A Man.
Based on the novel of the same name by Japanese author Keiichiro Hirano, A Man follows a troubled lawyer (Satoshi Tsumabuki) who is drawn into a web of mystery when a former client (played by a soulful Sakura Ando, star of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters) asks him to investigate the mysterious past of her deceased husband (a beguiling Masataka Kubota). The attorney encounters an array of colorful characters in his pursuit of the identify of this man who lived his life as a different person — but as he comes closer to the shocking truth, mixed feelings about the nature of his own place in the world steadily creep up on him.
“Shochiku came to me with...
- 9/4/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Japanese mystery drama A Man, the second feature of rising Japanese director Kei Ishikawa, inked a batch of sales heading into its world premiere in Venice’s Horizons section.
Art House Films picked up the film for France, Pigeon Co. took it for Taiwan and Golden Scene snatched Hong Kong and Macau rights.
Based on the novel of the same name by Japanese author Keiichiro Hirano, A Man follows a troubled lawyer (Satoshi Tsumabuki) who is drawn into a web of mystery when a former client asks him to investigate the mysterious past of her deceased husband (a beguiling Masataka Kubota). The attorney encounters an array of people in his pursuit of the identify of a man who lived his life as a different person — but as he comes closer to the shocking truth, mixed feelings about the nature of his own place...
Japanese mystery drama A Man, the second feature of rising Japanese director Kei Ishikawa, inked a batch of sales heading into its world premiere in Venice’s Horizons section.
Art House Films picked up the film for France, Pigeon Co. took it for Taiwan and Golden Scene snatched Hong Kong and Macau rights.
Based on the novel of the same name by Japanese author Keiichiro Hirano, A Man follows a troubled lawyer (Satoshi Tsumabuki) who is drawn into a web of mystery when a former client asks him to investigate the mysterious past of her deceased husband (a beguiling Masataka Kubota). The attorney encounters an array of people in his pursuit of the identify of a man who lived his life as a different person — but as he comes closer to the shocking truth, mixed feelings about the nature of his own place...
- 9/1/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Click here to read the full article.
For the 79th Venice Film Festival, artistic director Alberto Barbera has put together one of the most well-curated lineups of his career. Both studios and streamers are well represented.
Netflix scored an opening-night coup with Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, with buzz promising that it’ll wow the Lido, alongside Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe biopic, Blonde, with Ana de Armas; Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Mexican epic Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths; and Romain Gavras’ French action thriller Athena.
Studio fare is well represented by Warner Bros.’ Don’t Worry Darling from director Olivia Wilde; Focus has Todd Field’s Tár with Cate Blanchett and Mark Strong; MGM will debut Luca Guadagnino’s Timothée Chalamet-Taylor Russell starrer Bones and All; Searchlight presents The Banshees of Inisherin from Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri director Martin McDonagh; and Sony Pictures Classics will be...
For the 79th Venice Film Festival, artistic director Alberto Barbera has put together one of the most well-curated lineups of his career. Both studios and streamers are well represented.
Netflix scored an opening-night coup with Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, with buzz promising that it’ll wow the Lido, alongside Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe biopic, Blonde, with Ana de Armas; Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Mexican epic Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths; and Romain Gavras’ French action thriller Athena.
Studio fare is well represented by Warner Bros.’ Don’t Worry Darling from director Olivia Wilde; Focus has Todd Field’s Tár with Cate Blanchett and Mark Strong; MGM will debut Luca Guadagnino’s Timothée Chalamet-Taylor Russell starrer Bones and All; Searchlight presents The Banshees of Inisherin from Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri director Martin McDonagh; and Sony Pictures Classics will be...
- 8/30/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"Why become a different man?" The Match Factory has revealed an official trailer for A Man, a Japanese mystery drama premiering at the 2022 Venice Film Festival next week. It's premiering in the "Orizzonti" section and looks like something to keep an eye on, not worth writing off. Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke. She discovers after a life spent with this man that he wasn't who he said he was. So… who exactly is he? "This film's themes, genre, and principal characters all keep transforming," the director explains. "I took care to maintain balance so that viewers wouldn't lose their way, but when you watch the film, you get the sense you're stumbling into a vast maze, and I personally love that kind of sensation." A Man stars Satoshi Tsumabuki,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Click here to read the full article.
A warmhearted widower discovers the man she loved had a hidden past in Japanese mystery thriller A Man, directed by Kei Ishikawa and world premiering at the Venice Film Festival next week.
In the first international trailer for the film (see below), a troubled lawyer (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is drawn into a web of mystery and a search for identity when a former client (played by Shoplifters star Sakura Ando) asks him to investigate the shady past of her deceased husband (a beguiling Masataka Kubota). The attorney encounters an array of people in his pursuit of the identify of a man who had lived his life as a different person — but as he comes closer to the shocking truth, mixed feelings about the nature of love and his own place in the world steadily creep up on him.
A Man is based on a...
A warmhearted widower discovers the man she loved had a hidden past in Japanese mystery thriller A Man, directed by Kei Ishikawa and world premiering at the Venice Film Festival next week.
In the first international trailer for the film (see below), a troubled lawyer (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is drawn into a web of mystery and a search for identity when a former client (played by Shoplifters star Sakura Ando) asks him to investigate the shady past of her deceased husband (a beguiling Masataka Kubota). The attorney encounters an array of people in his pursuit of the identify of a man who had lived his life as a different person — but as he comes closer to the shocking truth, mixed feelings about the nature of love and his own place in the world steadily creep up on him.
A Man is based on a...
- 8/25/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Shoplifters’ star Sakura Ando among the cast of the feature.
Leading German sales agent The Match Factory has acquired international rights to Kei Ishikawa’s A Man and will launch the Japanese feature in Cannes.
The story follows a troubled lawyer who is drawn into a web of mystery and a search for identity when a former client asks him to investigate the shady past of her deceased husband.
Based on a novel by Keiichiro Hirano, the screenplay was written by Kosuke Mukai. A release in Japan is being lined up for autumn 2022 by Shochiku, which also produced the film...
Leading German sales agent The Match Factory has acquired international rights to Kei Ishikawa’s A Man and will launch the Japanese feature in Cannes.
The story follows a troubled lawyer who is drawn into a web of mystery and a search for identity when a former client asks him to investigate the shady past of her deceased husband.
Based on a novel by Keiichiro Hirano, the screenplay was written by Kosuke Mukai. A release in Japan is being lined up for autumn 2022 by Shochiku, which also produced the film...
- 5/17/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
With a decade having passed since the 2011 disaster in Japan, a number of directors have turned their look towards the incident and its consequences, with “Fukushima 50” being the most renowned. Using the photography books of Masashi Asada as inspiration, Ryota Nakano presents a radically different take on the concept, by combining it with a distinctly anthropocentric story.
“The Asadas” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
Since he was a small kid, Masashi has shown an interest in photography, particularly since his father Akira took a picture of him and his brother, Yukihiro, during an excursion. Recognizing his talent, the whole family obliges to his whims of photographing them all showing off their dream jobs or other aspirations, including photos as yakuza, race drivers, firemen, and members of a band, among others. However, their constant will to help has made Masashi a self-centered, spoiled young man, whose...
“The Asadas” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
Since he was a small kid, Masashi has shown an interest in photography, particularly since his father Akira took a picture of him and his brother, Yukihiro, during an excursion. Recognizing his talent, the whole family obliges to his whims of photographing them all showing off their dream jobs or other aspirations, including photos as yakuza, race drivers, firemen, and members of a band, among others. However, their constant will to help has made Masashi a self-centered, spoiled young man, whose...
- 2/8/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Originally a stage play that shattered the previous theater attendance record, “Remain in Twilight” functions as a rather different style of coming-of-age film, since its protagonists are on the verge of being middle-aged.
“Remain in Twilight” is screening at Fantasia International Film Festival
Six friends reunite for a friend’s wedding ceremony, in order to rehearse a dance routine that they performed, embarrassingly, in high school. Although they have not been particularly close as a group recently, the dynamics of the past are still pretty much there, and the five of them soon embark on a drunken trip down memory lane. Through their interactions, it is revealed that Kinichi Fujita manages a theatrical comedy troupe, and thus is the choreographer of the current routine, and Tetsuya Akashi, who was somewhat of a bully during their schooldays, is one of his actors. Yusaku “Neji” Mizushima is the only one who stayed in their native Shizuoka,...
“Remain in Twilight” is screening at Fantasia International Film Festival
Six friends reunite for a friend’s wedding ceremony, in order to rehearse a dance routine that they performed, embarrassingly, in high school. Although they have not been particularly close as a group recently, the dynamics of the past are still pretty much there, and the five of them soon embark on a drunken trip down memory lane. Through their interactions, it is revealed that Kinichi Fujita manages a theatrical comedy troupe, and thus is the choreographer of the current routine, and Tetsuya Akashi, who was somewhat of a bully during their schooldays, is one of his actors. Yusaku “Neji” Mizushima is the only one who stayed in their native Shizuoka,...
- 8/18/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The “Detective Team” that swept the world rampages in Tokyo! Chinatown detective duo Tan Len (Wang Baoqiang) and Chin Fung (Liu Haoran), who have settled the case internationally, are from Japanese detective Noda Hiroshi (Satoshi Tsumabuki). He was asked to cooperate in solving a difficult case and flew to Tokyo. This mission is a false accusation of Yakuza leader Masaru Watanabe (Tomokazu Miura), who was charged as a criminal in a closed-room murder case of the Mafia chairman in Southeast Asia. Thai detective and former detective Jack Jar (Tony Jaa) also participates and tries to solve it, but an incident occurs in which Anna Kobayashi (Masami Nagasawa), the secretary of the murdered chairman, is kidnapped. The case is complicated by the involvement of an elite detective, Naoki Tanaka (Tadanobu Asano), who boasts a 100% case resolution rate, and a mysterious wanted criminal, Akira Murata (Sota Sometani). In addition, detectives who are...
- 6/17/2021
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
The mega-successful Chinese franchise about a mismatched detective duo tackling baffling crimes in foreign destinations continues with a wildly uneven caper set in Tokyo. With performances, plotting and visuals amped up to 11 as per usual, this hyperactive combination of Sherlock Holmes-type sleuthing and Three Stooges-style slapstick comedy offers plenty of zany fun, but the central murder-mystery contains so many convoluted diversions, digressions and detours it makes the whole enterprise play like a long stream-of-consciousness sketch with a glaringly hollow core.
A smash hit domestically after opening on Feb. 12 in the Chinese New Year season, “Detective Chinatown 3” has grossed $667 million in the three weeks since. U.S. distributor Warner Bros. Pictures has yet to announce specific release details following the Covid-19 enforced postponement of the film’s planned global rollout on January 24, 2020. Earning its place in history with the highest opening-day gross of any film in a single market ($163 million...
A smash hit domestically after opening on Feb. 12 in the Chinese New Year season, “Detective Chinatown 3” has grossed $667 million in the three weeks since. U.S. distributor Warner Bros. Pictures has yet to announce specific release details following the Covid-19 enforced postponement of the film’s planned global rollout on January 24, 2020. Earning its place in history with the highest opening-day gross of any film in a single market ($163 million...
- 3/6/2021
- by Richard Kuipers
- Variety Film + TV
Father and daughter relationship, corporate vs rock, fear of aging and near-death experience are only some of the hot topics that TV and commercial director Shinji Hamasaki has chosen to tackle and turn them into a madcap comedy in his first feature film “Not Quite Dead Yet”.
Not Quite Dead Yet is screening at Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme
Nanase Nobata (Suzu Hirose) is a brilliant scientist, fresh from University and with a dad who is president of the Nobata Pharmaceutics, a leading pharmaceutical company well known for their research on a rejuvenation drug called Romeo. It could be an ideal situation for Nanase if a little detail wasn’t in the way; Nanase hates her father and she would like to see him dead. So much so that she has written a song about it for her idol death metal band Soulzz. She despises him at the point that...
Not Quite Dead Yet is screening at Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme
Nanase Nobata (Suzu Hirose) is a brilliant scientist, fresh from University and with a dad who is president of the Nobata Pharmaceutics, a leading pharmaceutical company well known for their research on a rejuvenation drug called Romeo. It could be an ideal situation for Nanase if a little detail wasn’t in the way; Nanase hates her father and she would like to see him dead. So much so that she has written a song about it for her idol death metal band Soulzz. She despises him at the point that...
- 3/1/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
To many women and men, marriage is not only a happy occasion, but ultimately the center goal in their lives, unrelated to their cultural background. Especially in Western civilizations, marriage is not only connected to love and the concept of an eternal bond between people, but also a certain feeling of safety, emotionally and, perhaps more significantly, economically. Similar to the decision to buy a house and start a family, it sets a direction in one’s life, a victory, so to speak, to meet people’s expectations. In her home country, as director Yukiko Mishima explains, marriage, having children and buying/owning a house have become cultural rather than individual standards. Especially with regards to women, marriage as a means to create stability in one’s life also creates an immense pressure not to “slip up”.
Shape of Red is screening at Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme
In her...
Shape of Red is screening at Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme
In her...
- 2/19/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Based on the 1984 short story by Japanese author Seiko Tanabe, Isshin Inudo’s “Josee, the Tiger and the Fish” was released in 2003. The story has experienced a bit of a revival of late, what with a South Korean adaptation from Kim Jong-kwan and an anime version from director Kotaro Tamura both being released in 2020. What better time then to re-visit the original adaptation and see how it fares almost two decades on?
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish is screening at Japan Society
While walking his boss’ dog one morning, care-free university student Tsuneo (Satoshi Tsumabuki) stumbles upon a strange elderly woman (Eiko Shinya) who’s been seen pushing around a baby carriage for the better part of ten years. Much to his surprise, inside the carriage is the woman’s adult granddaughter, Kimiko (Chizuru Ikewaki), a sufferer of cerebral palsy who’s lost the use of her legs. Initially...
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish is screening at Japan Society
While walking his boss’ dog one morning, care-free university student Tsuneo (Satoshi Tsumabuki) stumbles upon a strange elderly woman (Eiko Shinya) who’s been seen pushing around a baby carriage for the better part of ten years. Much to his surprise, inside the carriage is the woman’s adult granddaughter, Kimiko (Chizuru Ikewaki), a sufferer of cerebral palsy who’s lost the use of her legs. Initially...
- 2/12/2021
- by Tom Wilmot
- AsianMoviePulse
China’s box office is primed for a sparkling Lunar New Year frame as new titles start rollout on Friday. As we noted this past Sunday, pre-sales had alread begun to pop, with threequel Detective Chinatown 3 in the lead. The film from Chen Sicheng as of 11:30Pm local time on Thursday had hit over Rmb 673M ($104M) in advance tickets for opening day Friday and more than Rmb 950M ($147M) for the first week, according to Maoyan.
Those figures exceed the advance sales performance of Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame which itself was a record-breaker in April 2019. Endgame debuted on a Wednesday in China and its ultimate day-one gross, including midnights, was Rmb 725M ($107.8M at historical rates/$112.3M today) — the biggest opening day ever in the market. Stripping out the midnights on Endgame, its first day was Rmb 538M. For reference, Monster Hunt 2 kicked off the Lunar...
Those figures exceed the advance sales performance of Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame which itself was a record-breaker in April 2019. Endgame debuted on a Wednesday in China and its ultimate day-one gross, including midnights, was Rmb 725M ($107.8M at historical rates/$112.3M today) — the biggest opening day ever in the market. Stripping out the midnights on Endgame, its first day was Rmb 538M. For reference, Monster Hunt 2 kicked off the Lunar...
- 2/11/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The film’s production company Bridgehead is handling sales to Europe, with Toho handling the rest of the world.
Japanese filmmaker Ryota Nakano’s The Asadas has been sold to France’s Art House Films, Nk Contents in South Korea and Cai Chang International in Taiwan.
The film, inspired by the life of celebrated photographer Masashi Asada, is handled internationally by its production company Bridgehead for European territories and by its distributor Toho for the rest of the world.
Starring Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters From Iwo Jima) and Satoshi Tsumabuki (The Assassin), the film was released theatrically in Japan on October...
Japanese filmmaker Ryota Nakano’s The Asadas has been sold to France’s Art House Films, Nk Contents in South Korea and Cai Chang International in Taiwan.
The film, inspired by the life of celebrated photographer Masashi Asada, is handled internationally by its production company Bridgehead for European territories and by its distributor Toho for the rest of the world.
Starring Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters From Iwo Jima) and Satoshi Tsumabuki (The Assassin), the film was released theatrically in Japan on October...
- 2/2/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
New York, NY –Japan Society and the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (Aca), in collaboration with the Visual Industry Promotion Organization (Vipo), announce the inaugural Aca Cinema Project online film series 21st Century Japan: Films from 2001-2020, streaming nationwide on Japan Society’s Virtual Cinema from February 5-25, 2021.
As Japan’s film industry enters its third decade in the new millennium, this 30-film online series takes a look back at the last 20 years of Japanese cinema to celebrate some of the most remarkable narrative fiction films and filmmakers that define the era. Covering a wide range of production styles and genres—from small budget independent debuts to festival favorites and award-winning major studio releases—this diverse slate of feature and short films offers a guided tour of modern Japanese cinema, including special spotlights dedicated to the work of Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a selection of breakout films by up-and-coming filmmakers.
As Japan’s film industry enters its third decade in the new millennium, this 30-film online series takes a look back at the last 20 years of Japanese cinema to celebrate some of the most remarkable narrative fiction films and filmmakers that define the era. Covering a wide range of production styles and genres—from small budget independent debuts to festival favorites and award-winning major studio releases—this diverse slate of feature and short films offers a guided tour of modern Japanese cinema, including special spotlights dedicated to the work of Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a selection of breakout films by up-and-coming filmmakers.
- 1/11/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
With a decade having passed since the 2011 disaster in Japan, a number of directors have turned their look towards the incident and its consequences, with “Fukushima 50” being the most renowned. Using the photography books of Masashi Asada as inspiration, Ryota Nakano presents a radically different take on the concept, by combining it with a distinctly anthropocentric story.
Since he was a small kid, Masashi has shown an interest in photography, particularly since his father Akira took a picture of him and his brother, Yukihiro, during an excursion. Recognizing his talent, the whole family obliges to his whims of photographing them all showing off their dream jobs or other aspirations, including photos as yakuza, race drivers, firemen, and members of a band, among others. However, their constant will to help has made Masashi a self-centered, spoiled young man, whose sole redeeming quality seems to be his eagerness to apologize. His attitude...
Since he was a small kid, Masashi has shown an interest in photography, particularly since his father Akira took a picture of him and his brother, Yukihiro, during an excursion. Recognizing his talent, the whole family obliges to his whims of photographing them all showing off their dream jobs or other aspirations, including photos as yakuza, race drivers, firemen, and members of a band, among others. However, their constant will to help has made Masashi a self-centered, spoiled young man, whose sole redeeming quality seems to be his eagerness to apologize. His attitude...
- 1/9/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
To most cinephiles, the name Yoshihiro Hanno is still often associated with film music. Apart from composing the score for his own movies, such as “Ugly” and “A Woman Wavering in the Rain” Hanno has created the music for Jia Zhangke’s “Mountains May Depart” and Isao Yukisada’s “Five Minutes to Tomorrow”, to name just a few examples. In his new directorial effort “Paradise Next”, he tells the story of three people feeling lost because of guilt, regret and a sense of spiritual loneliness, utilizing the conventions of the road movie for them to explore these issues as well as their connections to each other. The result has quite a few aesthetic merits, but fails to convince with its uneven, at times indecisive storyline.
“Paradise Next” is screening at Japan-Filmfest Hamburg
For a year now Shima (Etsushi Toyokawa) has sought refuge with a crew of gangsters in Taiwan after...
“Paradise Next” is screening at Japan-Filmfest Hamburg
For a year now Shima (Etsushi Toyokawa) has sought refuge with a crew of gangsters in Taiwan after...
- 8/26/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
To many women and men, marriage is not only a happy occasion, but ultimately the center goal in their lives, unrelated to their cultural background. Especially in Western civilizations, marriage is not only connected to love and the concept of an eternal bond between people, but also a certain feeling of safety, emotionally and, perhaps more significantly, economically. Similar to the decision to buy a house and start a family, it sets a direction in one’s life, a victory, so to speak, to meet people’s expectations. In her home country, as director Yukiko Mishima explains, marriage, having children and buying/owning a house have become cultural rather than individual standards. Especially with regards to women, marriage as a means to create stability in one’s life also creates an immense pressure not to “slip up”.
“Shape of Red” is screening at Nippon Connection 2020
In her adaptation of Rio Shimamoto...
“Shape of Red” is screening at Nippon Connection 2020
In her adaptation of Rio Shimamoto...
- 6/12/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
“Traces of Sin” is director Kei Ishikawa’s first narrative feature film. It is based on a detective novel by Tokuro Nukui. The story follows crime journalist Tanaka’s (Satoshi Tsumabuki) reinvestigation of a murder of an upper-middle class family which happened a year ago. The police never found the murderer. However, during Tanaka’s investigation, some new clues have emerged and they may have showed who the real murderer is. At the meantime, Tanaka has to take care of his traumatized sister who is in jail, because of her negligence of her child.
While the film follows the investigation of the journalist, “Traces of Sin” doe snot focus on finding who the real murderer is. Instead, as the director has pointed out in one interview, the film wants to show that everyone can commit sins in their lives. No one is perfect, but no one is totally evil either.
While the film follows the investigation of the journalist, “Traces of Sin” doe snot focus on finding who the real murderer is. Instead, as the director has pointed out in one interview, the film wants to show that everyone can commit sins in their lives. No one is perfect, but no one is totally evil either.
- 5/5/2020
- by I-Lin Liu
- AsianMoviePulse
Among the tamest novels and subsequently movies based on a Ryu Murakami book, “69” deals with the story of a group of high school students led by the constantly smiling, quite charismatic Ken, who try to find a purpose in their lives living in Sasebo, Nagasaki in 1969.
The film shows its tone from the beginning, with Ken jumping over the fence of the Us base in the area in an “infiltration” perceived by him and his friends as an act of rebellion, while known rock ‘n’ roll tracks are heard in the background. Having learnt about the intense student movement that took place the same year, the youths feel inspired, but at the same time realize that they live too far from the events, something that leads them to a number of incidents of overacting. As they are all teenagers, however, their main goal remains the same: to get girls,...
The film shows its tone from the beginning, with Ken jumping over the fence of the Us base in the area in an “infiltration” perceived by him and his friends as an act of rebellion, while known rock ‘n’ roll tracks are heard in the background. Having learnt about the intense student movement that took place the same year, the youths feel inspired, but at the same time realize that they live too far from the events, something that leads them to a number of incidents of overacting. As they are all teenagers, however, their main goal remains the same: to get girls,...
- 4/19/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Nicolas Cage is certainly building on his resume of genre-driven films with the new sci-fi horror pic Color Out of Space, which opens in limited release January 24. The film marks the first feature from celebrated cult filmmaker Richard Stanley since Hardware.
Based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the film follows Nathan Gardner (Cage) and his family after a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farm. As things unravel, the family finds themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism as it infects their minds and bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a technicolor nightmare.
The film, which Stanley co-wrote with Scarlett Amaris also stars Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Brendan Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Elliot Knight, Q’orianka Kilcher and Tommy Chong.
The U.S. rights to the film were acquired by Rlje Films ahead of its Midnight Madness premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this past September. Based on the trailer (which you can watch below), the film is very much in the same vein of Mandy a fever dream of a thriller that also starred Cage. Like Mandy, the film is produced by Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision and Xyz films. Mandy banked a worldwide gross of $1,335,484.
Color Out of Space is produced by SpectreVision’s Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, Lisa Whalen and Elijah Wood. Executive producers are Timur Bekbosunov, Johnny Chang, Emma Lee and Peter Wong for Ace Pictures, which is also financing. Stacy Jorgensen serves as executive producer for SpectreVision.
The modern-day B-movie has already garnered a cult audience and has been gaining traction since its world premiere at Tiff with an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is set to open in 75 theaters with an additional 150 one-night-only eventized screenings at Regal, Drafthouse, AMC, Landmark and various independent chains.
Todd Robinson’s all-star Vietnam drama The Last Full Measure starring Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer and William Hurt will also debut this we The film follows the true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger (Jeremy Irvine), a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over 60 men in the Army’s 1st Infantry Division during a devastating 1966 battle, losing his own life in the process.
Fast forward 32 years later and Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman (Stan) is tasked with investigating a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger made by his best friend and partner on the mission (Hurt) and his parents (Plummer and Diane Ladd). Scott seeks out the testimony of Army veterans who witnessed Pitsenbarger’s heroic rescues He talks to Takoda (Samuel L. Jackson), Burr (Peter Fonda) and Mott (Ed Harris), but as he more about Pitsenbarger’s courageous acts, he uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting him to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman. The film also stars LisaGay Hamilton, Amy Madigan, Linus Roache, John Savage, Alison Sudol and Bradley Whitford.
‘The Last Full Measure’ Review: All-Star Cast Excels In Inspiring True Story Of Nearly Forgotten Heroism
Watch the trailer below.
Also opening this weekend is the Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari-directed Panga, which is inspired by the life of a national level Kabaddi player from India. The film starring Kangana Ranaut, Jassie Gill, Richa Chadda, Neena Gupta and Yagya Bhasin is set to open globally on January 24 with over 100 theaters across North America.
The female-fronted pic is very much a “second act” type of story that sheds light on the ups and downs of a middle-class Indian woman who is a forgotten world champion of the popular South Asian sport of Kabaddi. She looks to give a new meaning to her existing role as a wife and mother and makes the choice to return to the sport and in turn, challenges age stereotypes and a new generation complexities. In turn, she creates an upheaval in her life as she is torn between family responsibility and love for the sport.
Detective Chinatown 3 will also debut this weekend and will continue the wildly successful action-comedy buddy franchise starring Baiqiang Wang and Haoran Liu. The third installment finds detectives Tang Ren and Qin Feng in Tokyo as they investigate a crime alongside Noda Hiroshi (Satoshi Tsumabuki). As a result, a hilarious battle of detectives ensue. With Chen Sicheng returning to the director’s chair, the film is one of the biggest U.S. releases of a Chinese-language film. The first installment debuted in 2015 and earned $125,112,232 in China and $474,252 stateside while the 2018 sequel earned a mind-boggling $541,406,438 at the Chinese box office and $1,983,984 domestically.
Based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the film follows Nathan Gardner (Cage) and his family after a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farm. As things unravel, the family finds themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism as it infects their minds and bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a technicolor nightmare.
The film, which Stanley co-wrote with Scarlett Amaris also stars Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Brendan Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Elliot Knight, Q’orianka Kilcher and Tommy Chong.
The U.S. rights to the film were acquired by Rlje Films ahead of its Midnight Madness premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this past September. Based on the trailer (which you can watch below), the film is very much in the same vein of Mandy a fever dream of a thriller that also starred Cage. Like Mandy, the film is produced by Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision and Xyz films. Mandy banked a worldwide gross of $1,335,484.
Color Out of Space is produced by SpectreVision’s Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, Lisa Whalen and Elijah Wood. Executive producers are Timur Bekbosunov, Johnny Chang, Emma Lee and Peter Wong for Ace Pictures, which is also financing. Stacy Jorgensen serves as executive producer for SpectreVision.
The modern-day B-movie has already garnered a cult audience and has been gaining traction since its world premiere at Tiff with an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is set to open in 75 theaters with an additional 150 one-night-only eventized screenings at Regal, Drafthouse, AMC, Landmark and various independent chains.
Todd Robinson’s all-star Vietnam drama The Last Full Measure starring Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer and William Hurt will also debut this we The film follows the true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger (Jeremy Irvine), a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over 60 men in the Army’s 1st Infantry Division during a devastating 1966 battle, losing his own life in the process.
Fast forward 32 years later and Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman (Stan) is tasked with investigating a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger made by his best friend and partner on the mission (Hurt) and his parents (Plummer and Diane Ladd). Scott seeks out the testimony of Army veterans who witnessed Pitsenbarger’s heroic rescues He talks to Takoda (Samuel L. Jackson), Burr (Peter Fonda) and Mott (Ed Harris), but as he more about Pitsenbarger’s courageous acts, he uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting him to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman. The film also stars LisaGay Hamilton, Amy Madigan, Linus Roache, John Savage, Alison Sudol and Bradley Whitford.
‘The Last Full Measure’ Review: All-Star Cast Excels In Inspiring True Story Of Nearly Forgotten Heroism
Watch the trailer below.
Also opening this weekend is the Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari-directed Panga, which is inspired by the life of a national level Kabaddi player from India. The film starring Kangana Ranaut, Jassie Gill, Richa Chadda, Neena Gupta and Yagya Bhasin is set to open globally on January 24 with over 100 theaters across North America.
The female-fronted pic is very much a “second act” type of story that sheds light on the ups and downs of a middle-class Indian woman who is a forgotten world champion of the popular South Asian sport of Kabaddi. She looks to give a new meaning to her existing role as a wife and mother and makes the choice to return to the sport and in turn, challenges age stereotypes and a new generation complexities. In turn, she creates an upheaval in her life as she is torn between family responsibility and love for the sport.
Detective Chinatown 3 will also debut this weekend and will continue the wildly successful action-comedy buddy franchise starring Baiqiang Wang and Haoran Liu. The third installment finds detectives Tang Ren and Qin Feng in Tokyo as they investigate a crime alongside Noda Hiroshi (Satoshi Tsumabuki). As a result, a hilarious battle of detectives ensue. With Chen Sicheng returning to the director’s chair, the film is one of the biggest U.S. releases of a Chinese-language film. The first installment debuted in 2015 and earned $125,112,232 in China and $474,252 stateside while the 2018 sequel earned a mind-boggling $541,406,438 at the Chinese box office and $1,983,984 domestically.
- 1/24/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
In celebration of the Chinese New Year, Warner Bros. Pictures will invite audiences throughout the U.S. and Canada to experience the newest chapter in the hugely popular international franchise with the domestic theatrical release of “Detective Chinatown 3.” The action-comedy-mystery sequel is set to open in more than 150 theaters and limited IMAX engagements in major cities across North America, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Toronto and Vancouver, on January 24, 2020, day-and-date with the film’s much-anticipated release in China by Wanda Pictures. “Detective Chinatown 3” is one of the widest releases among all Mandarin language films in North America in recent years.
Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran reprise their roles as a mismatched crime-solving duo in the film, again written and directed by Chen Sicheng. Set in Tokyo, where the pair embarks on their latest misadventure, the film also features Thai martial arts superstar Tony Jaa...
Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran reprise their roles as a mismatched crime-solving duo in the film, again written and directed by Chen Sicheng. Set in Tokyo, where the pair embarks on their latest misadventure, the film also features Thai martial arts superstar Tony Jaa...
- 1/19/2020
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Warner Bros. Pictures has confirmed details of its wide specialty release of “Detective Chinatown 3” in North America. The film will reach American theaters on Jan. 24, coinciding with a huge outing handled by Wanda Pictures in China at the beginning of Chinese New Year (aka Spring Festival).
The mainland Chinese-produced franchise movie is pitched as an action-comedy-mystery sequel that is once again written and directed by Chen Sicheng. Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran reprise their roles as a mismatched crime-solving duo. Third time out, the action shifts to Tokyo, after previous excursions to Thailand and New York.
Warner reports that it will open the film “in more than 150 theaters and limited IMAX engagements in major cities across North America, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Toronto and Vancouver.”
Releases of most Chinese films in North America target the Chinese diaspora, rather than crossover audiences. And they...
The mainland Chinese-produced franchise movie is pitched as an action-comedy-mystery sequel that is once again written and directed by Chen Sicheng. Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran reprise their roles as a mismatched crime-solving duo. Third time out, the action shifts to Tokyo, after previous excursions to Thailand and New York.
Warner reports that it will open the film “in more than 150 theaters and limited IMAX engagements in major cities across North America, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Toronto and Vancouver.”
Releases of most Chinese films in North America target the Chinese diaspora, rather than crossover audiences. And they...
- 1/16/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Japanese filmmaker Toshiaki Toyoda has been making the news lately. Sadly, not with any of his films, but with being falsely arrested for the possession of a firearm. Since this has not been the first time Toyoda has come into contact with Japanese authorities, it also significantly slowed down the release of his latest project “The Planetist”, a documentary about the Ogasawara Islands, beautiful islands which can only be accessed via ship.
We sat down with the director to talk to him about his films “The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan”, which is screening at Nippon Connection, and “The Planetist” but also about his latest experiences with the Japanese authorities.
“The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan” is screening at
Nippon Connection
I would like to start the interview with a question about your recent arrest. However, you do not have to answer if you do not want to.. What happened? Since this...
We sat down with the director to talk to him about his films “The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan”, which is screening at Nippon Connection, and “The Planetist” but also about his latest experiences with the Japanese authorities.
“The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan” is screening at
Nippon Connection
I would like to start the interview with a question about your recent arrest. However, you do not have to answer if you do not want to.. What happened? Since this...
- 9/19/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Takashi Miike’s second phase of filmmaking, the one mostly dealing with manga adaptations, has been at its best when the Japanese master was able to make films that function as a collage of different ideas. “Ai to Makoto”, the manga by Ikki Kajiwara and Takumi Nagayasu the film is based on, gave Miike a perfect opportunity to produce a movie in that style, as it includes elements of 70s exploitation, musical and anime/manga aesthetics, to name a few. Let us take things from the beginning though.
The anime intro begins in 1961, when a skiing accident introduces the aristocrat Ai to the punk Makoto. 11 years later, and in live-action mode, the two meet again, when Ai, a senior in a prestigious high school, stumbles upon Makoto as he fights the members of a Tokyo gang on his own. Makoto emerges victorious, after the first musical act of the film,...
The anime intro begins in 1961, when a skiing accident introduces the aristocrat Ai to the punk Makoto. 11 years later, and in live-action mode, the two meet again, when Ai, a senior in a prestigious high school, stumbles upon Makoto as he fights the members of a Tokyo gang on his own. Makoto emerges victorious, after the first musical act of the film,...
- 8/5/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
In a testament to film’s appeal to the Japanese audience, only four months after the March 2016 release of the original movie, this sequel was greenlighted, with Yoji Yamada presenting once again, the shenanigans of a truly crazy, but very lovable family.
“What A Wonderful Family 2” screened at Fantasia International Film Festival
The story takes place several years after the events of the first movie, when Shuzo, the patriarch of the family almost divorced from his wife, Tomiko. Shuzo, however, is once more the central character, as the two parts of the film revolve around him. The first regards the (conspiring) efforts of the rest of the family to persuade him to stop driving, after realizing that his car has a number of dents, and the second his meeting with Ginnpei Maruta, an old schoolmate who has disappeared. The old friends decide to go on a night of extreme drinking...
“What A Wonderful Family 2” screened at Fantasia International Film Festival
The story takes place several years after the events of the first movie, when Shuzo, the patriarch of the family almost divorced from his wife, Tomiko. Shuzo, however, is once more the central character, as the two parts of the film revolve around him. The first regards the (conspiring) efforts of the rest of the family to persuade him to stop driving, after realizing that his car has a number of dents, and the second his meeting with Ginnpei Maruta, an old schoolmate who has disappeared. The old friends decide to go on a night of extreme drinking...
- 7/13/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Keishi Otomo has emerged, during the last years, as one of the most successful adaptors of manga in Japanese cinema, following in the footsteps of Takashi Miike, with films like the “Rurouni Kenshin Trilogy” and “The Top Secret: Murder in Mind”. In the case of “Museum,” he goes to a different direction from samurai and sci-fi movies, and presents a crime thriller that lingers somewhere between “Saw” and “Seven”.
“Museum” screened as part of the Asian selection at Fantasia International Film Festival
Detective Hisashi Sawamura is one of the best detectives in his department, highlighting his ingenious and coolness every chance he gets. Deep down, though, he is a mess, since his wife abandoned him, taking their son with her, after suffering years of neglect. Around the same time, a serial killer starts appearing in Tokyo, killing his victims in ritualistic but grotesque fashion, with the murders taking place only during heavy rain.
“Museum” screened as part of the Asian selection at Fantasia International Film Festival
Detective Hisashi Sawamura is one of the best detectives in his department, highlighting his ingenious and coolness every chance he gets. Deep down, though, he is a mess, since his wife abandoned him, taking their son with her, after suffering years of neglect. Around the same time, a serial killer starts appearing in Tokyo, killing his victims in ritualistic but grotesque fashion, with the murders taking place only during heavy rain.
- 7/6/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
China’s Wanda Pictures will attend Cannes’ Marche du Film this year with four new projects, including “Detective Chinatown 3,” the latest installment in the lucrative franchise.
Last year’s “Detective Chinatown 2” debuted in the competitive Chinese New Year period and brought in $496 million (RMB3.39 billion) to become the country’s fifth-highest-grossing title of all time. The third installment is scheduled to hit theaters on the first day of next year’s lunar near year holiday, on Jan. 25, 2020. It is being directed by Chen Sicheng, who did the first two films, and once again stars Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran, who are this time joined by Satoshi Tsumabuki.
Also on Wanda’s slate is a remake of the Indian thriller “Drishyam,” which was made in 2013 in the Malayalam language, the official tongue of Kerala state, and then remade in Hindi in 2015. The Hindi-language version earned $16 million worldwide. It tells the...
Last year’s “Detective Chinatown 2” debuted in the competitive Chinese New Year period and brought in $496 million (RMB3.39 billion) to become the country’s fifth-highest-grossing title of all time. The third installment is scheduled to hit theaters on the first day of next year’s lunar near year holiday, on Jan. 25, 2020. It is being directed by Chen Sicheng, who did the first two films, and once again stars Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran, who are this time joined by Satoshi Tsumabuki.
Also on Wanda’s slate is a remake of the Indian thriller “Drishyam,” which was made in 2013 in the Malayalam language, the official tongue of Kerala state, and then remade in Hindi in 2015. The Hindi-language version earned $16 million worldwide. It tells the...
- 5/9/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
It is a rare occasion when Takashi Miike directs an almost completely tame film, while it borders on surprise when you have Tatsuya Fujiwara, one of the most hyperbolic actors in Japanese cinema, exercising the same kind of restraint. For that only, “Sabu” is a unique entry in Miike’s filmography. Let us see, however, how it fares as a movie.
Made as a TV film to mark the 40th anniversary of Nagoya TV, “Sabu” is based on a novel by Shugoro Yamamoto, whose works also served as basis for “Red Beard” and “Sanjuro”. One of the harshest “themes” of Edo period, parents sending away their kids because they were not able to feed them, serves as the basis, as the titular character has suffered this fate in the hands of a papermaker. While still a kid, he meets Eiji, who has become an apprentice after being orphaned at a young age,...
Made as a TV film to mark the 40th anniversary of Nagoya TV, “Sabu” is based on a novel by Shugoro Yamamoto, whose works also served as basis for “Red Beard” and “Sanjuro”. One of the harshest “themes” of Edo period, parents sending away their kids because they were not able to feed them, serves as the basis, as the titular character has suffered this fate in the hands of a papermaker. While still a kid, he meets Eiji, who has become an apprentice after being orphaned at a young age,...
- 4/3/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Japanese director Tetsuya Nakashima (“Confessions” “World of Kanako“) has completed production on his most recent film “It Comes”. The horror film is based off the novel “Bogiwan ga Kuru” by Ichi Sawamura. The film features a familiar cast with Satoshi Tsumabuki, Takako Matsu (Confessions) and Nana Komatsu (The World of Kanako) all returning to work with Nakashima on this latest production.
The film is set to be released on December 7th, 2018, a trailer for the film, originally titled “kuru”, has been released
Synopsis
Hideki Tahara (Satoshi Tsumabuki) and Kana Tahara (Haru Kuroki) are newlyweds. Hideki is excited about his future with Kana. One day, a mysterious person visits the company where Hideki works. Hideki’s colleague conveys the visitor’s message to Hideki “about Chisa-san case.” As soon as Hideki hears the name Chisa, he becomes stunned. His wife is pregnant and they have picked the name Chisa for their baby.
The film is set to be released on December 7th, 2018, a trailer for the film, originally titled “kuru”, has been released
Synopsis
Hideki Tahara (Satoshi Tsumabuki) and Kana Tahara (Haru Kuroki) are newlyweds. Hideki is excited about his future with Kana. One day, a mysterious person visits the company where Hideki works. Hideki’s colleague conveys the visitor’s message to Hideki “about Chisa-san case.” As soon as Hideki hears the name Chisa, he becomes stunned. His wife is pregnant and they have picked the name Chisa for their baby.
- 10/5/2018
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Oscar-winning composer A. R. Rahman has written the score for the film.
Franck Priot’s Paris-based production outfit Ghosts City is co-producing Tamil-language drama Madras Beats, directed by Rajiv Menon, with India’s Mindscreen Cinemas.
Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman has written the score for the film, about a boy from India’s ‘untouchable’ caste who dreams of becoming a drummer in the South Indian ‘Carnatic’ classical music tradition. Gv Prakash, who is a trained classical musician in addition to an actor, heads the cast.
French editor Nadia Ben Rachid and sound mixer Thierry Delor, who both won Cesars for Timbuktu,...
Franck Priot’s Paris-based production outfit Ghosts City is co-producing Tamil-language drama Madras Beats, directed by Rajiv Menon, with India’s Mindscreen Cinemas.
Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman has written the score for the film, about a boy from India’s ‘untouchable’ caste who dreams of becoming a drummer in the South Indian ‘Carnatic’ classical music tradition. Gv Prakash, who is a trained classical musician in addition to an actor, heads the cast.
French editor Nadia Ben Rachid and sound mixer Thierry Delor, who both won Cesars for Timbuktu,...
- 5/13/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Japanese composer-filmmaker Yoshihiro Hanno is directing the film produced by Taiwan’s Joint Pictures and Japan’s Shimensoka Co.
Japanese stars Satoshi Tsumabuki and Etsushi Toyokawa will head the cast of Japan-Taiwan co-production Paradise Next, which is gearing up to shoot in Taiwan.
Directed by Japanese composer-filmmaker Yoshihiro Hanno, the film will feature a theme song composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Taiwan’s Joint Pictures and Japan’s Shimensoka Co will co-produce.
The story follows two Japanese hit men who are forced into exile in Taiwan, where they embark on a journey of atonement. Production is scheduled to start on June...
Japanese stars Satoshi Tsumabuki and Etsushi Toyokawa will head the cast of Japan-Taiwan co-production Paradise Next, which is gearing up to shoot in Taiwan.
Directed by Japanese composer-filmmaker Yoshihiro Hanno, the film will feature a theme song composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Taiwan’s Joint Pictures and Japan’s Shimensoka Co will co-produce.
The story follows two Japanese hit men who are forced into exile in Taiwan, where they embark on a journey of atonement. Production is scheduled to start on June...
- 5/11/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Gukoroku: Traces of Sin, a moody Japanese mystery based on Nukui Tokuro's novel, feels like a pristine, preserved relic from the golden age of Japanese horror (think late 1990's, early 2000's). A self-assured and masterfully shot feature-length debut, the film nevertheless feels intrinsically indebted to the seminal works of Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Nakata Hideo, and Shimizu Takashi. Its subdued grey color palette, use of cold interior spaces, and emotionally distant authority figures haunt the film, all staples of the genre that serve to set the mood in a way that allows Gukoroku to fit into its world like a hand into an old, surprisingly not-yet-worn glove. Satoshi Tsumabuki plays the withdrawn, stoic newspaper reporter Tanaka, who has dedicated himself to covering a year-old murder mystery: the slaughter...
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- 10/11/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Lee Sang-il has always had a different, unique approach in his films, as the fact that he is Zainichi Korean allows him to combine elements from both Japanese and Korean cinema. This trait became obvious in “Villain”, but it is in “Rage” that it finds its apogee.
“Rage” was part of the program of the New York Asian Film Festival,
The intricate story is based on the homonymous novel by Shuchi Yoshida, (who also wrote the book that “Villain” was based upon), and uses a gruesome murder, that receives much publicity as it is investigated by the police, as its base, before it splits into three different settings.
The first one takes place in Chiba where Yohei Maki rescues his daughter Aiko, from a life as a sex worker. As both of them try to heal from the wounds of the past and to face public prejudice, Aiko starts having...
“Rage” was part of the program of the New York Asian Film Festival,
The intricate story is based on the homonymous novel by Shuchi Yoshida, (who also wrote the book that “Villain” was based upon), and uses a gruesome murder, that receives much publicity as it is investigated by the police, as its base, before it splits into three different settings.
The first one takes place in Chiba where Yohei Maki rescues his daughter Aiko, from a life as a sex worker. As both of them try to heal from the wounds of the past and to face public prejudice, Aiko starts having...
- 8/8/2017
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The 29th ceremony took place on December, 28 at the New Otani Hotel, in Tokyo and the list of winners is:
Best Film: 64: Part 1 (Takahisa Zeze)
Best Director: Makoto Shinkai (Your Anme)
Best Actor: Koichi Sato (64: Part 1)
Best Actress: Rie Miyazawa (Her Love Boils Bathwater )
Best Supporting Actor: Satoshi Tsumabuki (Rage, Museum)
Best Supporting Actress: Aoi Miyazaki (Rage, If Cats Disappeared from the World)
Best International Film: Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
New Face Award: Kasumi Arimura (Nanimono, Natsumi’s Firefly)
Yujiro Ishihara Award: Dangerous Cops: Final 5 Days (Toru Murakawa)
Toru Murakawa Kasumi Arimura Rie Miyazawa...
Best Film: 64: Part 1 (Takahisa Zeze)
Best Director: Makoto Shinkai (Your Anme)
Best Actor: Koichi Sato (64: Part 1)
Best Actress: Rie Miyazawa (Her Love Boils Bathwater )
Best Supporting Actor: Satoshi Tsumabuki (Rage, Museum)
Best Supporting Actress: Aoi Miyazaki (Rage, If Cats Disappeared from the World)
Best International Film: Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
New Face Award: Kasumi Arimura (Nanimono, Natsumi’s Firefly)
Yujiro Ishihara Award: Dangerous Cops: Final 5 Days (Toru Murakawa)
Toru Murakawa Kasumi Arimura Rie Miyazawa...
- 1/8/2017
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Tetsuya Nakashima, one of the greatest contemporary Japanese filmmakers takes up, once more, the subject of bullying in the school environment, although in a much different fashion than “Confessions,” adapting Akio Fukamatsi’s novel, ” Hateshinaki Kawaki (Kawaki is the original title of the film).
When gorgeous and excellent student Kanako disappears, her mother, Kiriko, asks her ex-husband, Akikazu, to locate her. However, things take a turn for the worse since Akikazu is an ex-cop, who has actually been an irresponsible delinquent all of his life, is now determined to search relentlessly for his daughter. And the word relentlessly, to Akikazu, means that he is willing to act violently towards her classmates, her psychiatrist and the professor in charge of her classroom, all of which are women. During his, filled with alcohol and psychiatric pills, research, he discovers that his daughter has nothing to do with the angelic creature he and...
When gorgeous and excellent student Kanako disappears, her mother, Kiriko, asks her ex-husband, Akikazu, to locate her. However, things take a turn for the worse since Akikazu is an ex-cop, who has actually been an irresponsible delinquent all of his life, is now determined to search relentlessly for his daughter. And the word relentlessly, to Akikazu, means that he is willing to act violently towards her classmates, her psychiatrist and the professor in charge of her classroom, all of which are women. During his, filled with alcohol and psychiatric pills, research, he discovers that his daughter has nothing to do with the angelic creature he and...
- 9/10/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
With the Toronto International Film Festival just around the corner, the debut trailer for Japanese superstar Ken Watanabe’s latest offering, Rage (Ikari), has landed with an almighty splash.
Directed by Lee Sang-il (Unforgiven, Hula Girls), Rage tells a the story of a single brutal murder whose complex and sinister threads reach deep into the lives of a number of different people across three different cities in Japan. The trailer below sets the tone of the film, with shots of cryptic messages painted in blood onto the wall effectively off-setting the colorful backdrops of Japan’s southern islands and vibrant nightclubs.
Joining Ken Watanabe (Inception, The Last Samurai, Letters from Iwo Jima) are a number of up and coming Japanese acting talents, including Aoi Miyazaki (The Great Passage, Wolf Children), Satoshi Tsumabuki (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Assassin) and Mirai Moriyama (The Drudgery Train).
This will be...
Directed by Lee Sang-il (Unforgiven, Hula Girls), Rage tells a the story of a single brutal murder whose complex and sinister threads reach deep into the lives of a number of different people across three different cities in Japan. The trailer below sets the tone of the film, with shots of cryptic messages painted in blood onto the wall effectively off-setting the colorful backdrops of Japan’s southern islands and vibrant nightclubs.
Joining Ken Watanabe (Inception, The Last Samurai, Letters from Iwo Jima) are a number of up and coming Japanese acting talents, including Aoi Miyazaki (The Great Passage, Wolf Children), Satoshi Tsumabuki (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Assassin) and Mirai Moriyama (The Drudgery Train).
This will be...
- 8/23/2016
- by Robert Hill
- AsianMoviePulse
Wgtc Trailer Roundup #1 - Arrival, Hands Of Stone, Moana And More 1 of 28
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Welcome to the very first edition of Wgtc's weekly Trailer Roundup, where we'll be bringing you all the hottest movie and television trailers, clips, TV spots and more!
In this edition, we cover Morgan, Mechanic: Resurrection, American Horror Story, Arrival and Macgyver, among others. Take a look through and check back next week for more.
Arrival Trailer #1
Release Date: November 11th, 2016
Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Hidden Figures Trailer #1
Release Date: January 13th, 2017
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
Rules Don't Apply Trailer #1
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Haley Bennett, Lily Collins, Steve Coogan, Alden Ehrenreich, Taissa Farmiga, Ed Harris
Same Kind Of Different As Me Trailer #1
Release Date: February 3rd, 2017
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jon Voight, Djimon Hounsou
Moonlight Trailer #1
Release Date: October 21st,...
Click to skip Welcome To Wgtc's Trailer Roundup!
Welcome to the very first edition of Wgtc's weekly Trailer Roundup, where we'll be bringing you all the hottest movie and television trailers, clips, TV spots and more!
In this edition, we cover Morgan, Mechanic: Resurrection, American Horror Story, Arrival and Macgyver, among others. Take a look through and check back next week for more.
Arrival Trailer #1
Release Date: November 11th, 2016
Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Hidden Figures Trailer #1
Release Date: January 13th, 2017
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
Rules Don't Apply Trailer #1
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Haley Bennett, Lily Collins, Steve Coogan, Alden Ehrenreich, Taissa Farmiga, Ed Harris
Same Kind Of Different As Me Trailer #1
Release Date: February 3rd, 2017
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jon Voight, Djimon Hounsou
Moonlight Trailer #1
Release Date: October 21st,...
- 8/19/2016
- by Mark Cassidy
- We Got This Covered
Upcoming Japanese movie “Traces of Sin” releases first teaser. The murder-mystery film is also known as “Record of Folly”. The movie stars Japanese actor Satoshi Tsumabuki as Tanaka. Joining the cast is Hikari Mitsushima as Mitsuko. Directed by Kei Ishikawa, the movie is based on the 2006 novel “Gukoroku” by Tokuro Nukui.
Traces of Sin Revealed
The story begins with the murder of a rich man, his wife and their children. The murder became big news but remains a mystery. The family seems perfect and had no enemies. Without enough evidence or obvious motive, the unknown murderer remains at large.
A year later, a magazine reporter named Tanaka tries to solve the case. He meets a person who knew the family. Through his interviews, he finds out that everything is not what it seems. The ideal couple was not so perfect after all. His investigation leads him to discover the family’s dark secrets.
Traces of Sin Revealed
The story begins with the murder of a rich man, his wife and their children. The murder became big news but remains a mystery. The family seems perfect and had no enemies. Without enough evidence or obvious motive, the unknown murderer remains at large.
A year later, a magazine reporter named Tanaka tries to solve the case. He meets a person who knew the family. Through his interviews, he finds out that everything is not what it seems. The ideal couple was not so perfect after all. His investigation leads him to discover the family’s dark secrets.
- 8/18/2016
- by JRBandillo
- AsianMoviePulse
Yoji Yamada’s What a Wonderful Family screening on Fantasia International Film FestivalSTORY73%DIRECTION77%ACTING80%VISUALS65%POSITIVESGreat castMeaningful story with social implicationsElaborate directionNEGATIVESThe slow pace and the lack of action may not apply to the mainstream audience2016-08-0174%Overall ScoreReader Rating: (0 Votes)0%
Yoji Yamada has turned towards family films during the latest years, and this time presents a social comedy about a family of three generations living under the same roof.
The Hirata’s, seemingly, are a functional family, despite the fact that the grandparents, their eldest son, Konosuke with his wife, Fumie and their two children, and the younger son, Shota, all live under the same roof, along with their dog, Toto. The only family member away from the house is the daughter, Shigeko, who lives with her husband, Taizo, in an apartment of their own. The only one who seems to be problematic is the grandfather, Shuzo,...
Yoji Yamada has turned towards family films during the latest years, and this time presents a social comedy about a family of three generations living under the same roof.
The Hirata’s, seemingly, are a functional family, despite the fact that the grandparents, their eldest son, Konosuke with his wife, Fumie and their two children, and the younger son, Shota, all live under the same roof, along with their dog, Toto. The only family member away from the house is the daughter, Shigeko, who lives with her husband, Taizo, in an apartment of their own. The only one who seems to be problematic is the grandfather, Shuzo,...
- 8/1/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Japanese suspense drama stars Ken Watanabe.
Japanese studio Toho is launching sales on Lee Sang-il’s [pictured] suspense drama Rage, which features a stellar cast including Ken Watanabe, at the Efm.
Based on a novel by Shuichi Yoshida, the film revolves around three couples who become suspicious of people they have recently befriended, following a brutal double murder in a Tokyo satellite city.
In addition to Watanabe (The Last Samurai), the strong ensemble cast also includes Kenichi Matsuyama (Norwegian Wood), Satoshi Tsumabuki (The Assassin), Mirai Moriyama (Love Strikes), Go Ayano (The Light Shines Only There), Suzu Hirose (Our Little Sister) and Aoi Miyazaki (Eureka).
Currently in post-production, the film is being lined up for a summer 2016 release in Japan. Lee Sang-il previously worked with Watanabe on the Japanese version of Unforgiven and his credits also include Hula Girls (2006) and Villain (2010).
Toho’s slate also includes its new reboot of the iconic Godzilla franchise, Shin [link=tt...
Japanese studio Toho is launching sales on Lee Sang-il’s [pictured] suspense drama Rage, which features a stellar cast including Ken Watanabe, at the Efm.
Based on a novel by Shuichi Yoshida, the film revolves around three couples who become suspicious of people they have recently befriended, following a brutal double murder in a Tokyo satellite city.
In addition to Watanabe (The Last Samurai), the strong ensemble cast also includes Kenichi Matsuyama (Norwegian Wood), Satoshi Tsumabuki (The Assassin), Mirai Moriyama (Love Strikes), Go Ayano (The Light Shines Only There), Suzu Hirose (Our Little Sister) and Aoi Miyazaki (Eureka).
Currently in post-production, the film is being lined up for a summer 2016 release in Japan. Lee Sang-il previously worked with Watanabe on the Japanese version of Unforgiven and his credits also include Hula Girls (2006) and Villain (2010).
Toho’s slate also includes its new reboot of the iconic Godzilla franchise, Shin [link=tt...
- 2/11/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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