Today I'm at the down in London town. So far I've watched Shady and and I've interviewed one director and there's another interview to conduct today just before the screening of Remiges. Whenever I go to London I go to JP books to get some Japanese novels and magazines and I've got quite a bit of reading material to take back home with me. The Mitsukoshi building in London was recently closed but thanks to I now knew the new location and spending more money than is sensible. Rather conveniently there's also the Japan matsuri festival at Trafalgar square so I'll be eating and drinking Japanese things.
What did I watch before I went to London. I saw Halle Berry's latest film The Call which was a good little thriller. The final episode of Attack on Titan... The only way I can describe it is epic. I loved every moment of the series and so there's going to be a post tomorrow praising it! I watched the recently released OVA for My Youth Rom-Com, saying hello to old friends! I posted about Watamote, another anime that I hold in high regard and my final thoughts about three of the titles I watched. I also posted some of the line-up for the .
What's released in Japan this weekend?
CASE OF KYOKO, CASE OF SHUICHI
JAPANESE TITLE:
ROMAJI: KYOUKO TO SHUUICHI NO BAAI
RUNNING TIME: 134 mins.
RELEASE DATE: October 05th, 2013
DIRECTOR: Eiji Okuda
WRITER: Eiji Okuda (Screenplay)
STARRING: Sakura Ando, Tasuko Emoto, Mitsuru Hirata, Soko Wada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Ena Koshino, Takanori Takeyama
Starring: Sakura Ando, Tasuku Emoto, Soko Wada, Mitsuru Hirata, Ena Koshino, Takanori Takeyama, Yoshiko Miyazaki
This is a drama that draws on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. It is written and directed by Eiji Okuda, father of Sakura Ando (, ). Ando happens to be married to Tasuko Emoto, so this is a family affair!
Kyoko (Sakura Ando) is an insurance agent who is involved in a relationship with her boss. The relationship brings shame to her family and she has to leave her hometown. Shuichi (Emoto) had to kill his drunken father to save his mother from a vicious attack but he is sent to prison. Upon his release, he begins to work at a small factory in Tokyo.
These two souls who had to leave their home-town and live in Tokyo find themselves connected when the earthquake and tsunami strike.
R-100
JAPANESE TITLE: R-100
ROMAJI: R-100
RUNNING TIME: 100 mins.
RELEASE DATE: October 05th, 2013
DIRECTOR: Hitoshi Matsumoto
WRITER: Hitoshi Matsumoto (Screenplay)
STARRING: Nao Omori, Mao Daichi, Atsuro Watabe, Shinobu Terajima, Hairi Katagiri, Ai Tominaga, Eriko Sato, You, Suzuki Matsuo, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Gin Maeda, Naomi Watanabe, Haruki Nishimoto
This one was playing at the and here's my blurb about it: Hitoshi Matsumoto is unknown to me but lots of people like his feature Big Man Japan. A lot of the cast are familiar to me. Nao Omori (), Atsuro Watabe (, ), Shinobu Terajima (Kitaro and the Millennium Curse, Vibrator), Eriko Sato (), You (Nobody Knows, Still Walking) are all great actors and I believe they can make this comedy work. The concept is hilarious - a guy into a bit of S&M is hounded by dominatrixes in public.
Takafumi Katayama (Omori) is a mild-mannered father who escapes the pressures of everyday life by joining a mysterious S&M club where the dominatrix will visit the client in real life settings. At first the pinch and tickle treatment he receives from these girls in leather is fun but it becomes relentless. He is now at the mercy of a gang of dominatrixes who torment him!
BATTLE OF HIROMI-KUN! THE HIGH SCHOOL SAMURAI BOY
JAPANESE TITLE:THE HIGH SCHOOL SAMURAI BOY
ROMAJI: BATORU OFU HIROMIKUNTHE HIGH SCHOOL SAMURAI BOY
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 5TH, 2013
RUNNING TIME: 100 MINS.
DIRECTOR: TAKESHI MIYASAKA
WRITER: TAKESHI MIYASAKA (SCREENPLAY),
STARRING: Riki Takeuchi, Kanna Arihara, Daisuke Negishi, Saya Kuraha, Yuto Nakano, Masahiro Kamata, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Keiko Suzuki, Hisato Izaki, Naoki Hayashida
The last time I saw Riki Takeuchi was in Dead or Alive 2 with Sho Aikawa (THEY WILL NEVER DIE!). I don't take him too seriously as an actor, especially after his performance in Battle Royale 2 (overcooked!). This looks like it's meant to be a comedy in the mould, all goofy jokes and mugging for the camera.
Hiromi (Takeuchi) is a sixteen-year-old delinquent with dreams of becoming the leader of troubled high schools students groups all over Japan. Ambitious. So he takes to traveling around the nation and beating up the leaders of troubled high school groups one after another, but he soon runs out of money and has to go back home. His father, who owns a coffee shop, promises Hiromi that if he catches Tsuchinoko (a legendary snake-like cryptid), he will buy it for 1,000,000 yen. Hiromi decides to trying to catch Tsuchinoko. If life catching mythical snakes wasn't crazy enough he meets and falls in love with a woman who wants to become a singer and his younger sister Aiko is kidnapped. Just what is a boy to do???
SEIGAKU VS RIKKAI "THE PRINCE OF TENNIS" MUSICAL
JAPANESE TITLE:VS
ROMAJI: MY JIKARU `TENISU NOJISAMA' SEIGAKU VS TATSUUMI
RELEASE DATE: October 05th, 2013
RUNNING TIME: N/A
DIRECTOR: Yukio Ueshima
WRITER: Konomi Takeshi (Original Creator),
STARRING: Yuki Kogoshi, Takuma Wada, Ryo Mitsuya, Yuta Ozeki
Stage musical adaptations of anime and videogames are all the rage. Like the Persona series or Phoenix Wright? There's a musical for them and clips are on YouTube. Here's one for The Prince of Tennis.
Here's a clip:
BON NSOKU BOSATSU
JAPANESE TITLE:
ROMAJI: BON NSOKU BOSATSU
RELEASE DATE: October 05th, 2013
RUNNING TIME: 76 mins.
DIRECTOR: Yuki Ando
WRITER: Yuki Ando (Screenplay),
STARRING: Yukino Takeuchi, Jun Tomita, Yuko Ichimoku
I think my translation for this one is off but here goes. This is about a woman named Akemi who grew up amongst gangsters who just so happens to be harbouring a deity in her groin. Said deity offers happiness to peopleThe most normal thing seems to be she loves a guy named Ryuji.
WHO IS THAT MAN!?
JAPANESE TITLE:WHO IS THAT MAN!?!?
ROMAJI: WHO IS THAT MAN!? ANO OTOKO WA DARE DA?
RELEASE DATE: October 05th, 2013
RUNNING TIME: 88 mins.
DIRECTOR: Isao Okishima
WRITER: Isao Okishima (Screenplay),
STARRING: Satoshi Kamata, Eiji Uchiki, Yoshitaka Ishizuka,
Isao Okishia has worked with Koji Wakamatsu and was the writer for the TV anime "Manga Tales of Old Japan". This is his latest film and it is described as an allegorical tale of Japanese society after the Great East Japan Earthquake. It's all about wives being able to get another husband if their first one fails to provide childrenI think.
HALF - THE MIXED-RACE EXPERIENCE OF JAPAN
JAPANESE TITLE:
ROMAJI: Hafu
RELEASE DATE: October 05th, 2013
RUNNING TIME: 87 mins.
DIRECTOR: Megumi Nishikura, Lara Perez Takagi
WRITER: N/A
STARRING: N/A
I saw a trailer asking for participants for this film last year when I was looking up the actress Erika Sawajiri who just happens to be mixed-race. This is a documentary about mixed-race people in Japan which looks to have a wide variety of faces and voices that reflect their increasing number and diversity due to the nationalities involved and also different ages so we get a whole range of experiences. What's it like growing up in Japan? How does one get along a country that is still mono-cultural and how do they build their own personal identities?
NEW NEIGHBOR
JAPANESE TITLE: NEW NEIGHBOR
ROMAJI: NEW NEIGHBOR
RELEASE DATE: October 05th, 2013
RUNNING TIME: 40 mins.
DIRECTOR: Norman England
WRITER: Norman England, Yoshiki Takahashi (Screenplay),
STARRING: Ayano, Asami, Takashi Nishina, Kentaro Kishi, Tomoko Hayakawa, Demo Tanaka, Yota Kawase
This is an erotic suspense thriller from a westerner by the name of Norman England. He has been involved in the Japanese film industry for many years but this is his first directorial job. Yoshiki Takahashi, who helped write , co-writes this short film. No Trailer.
A beautiful OL (Office Lady) lives with constant unwanted advances from strange men and sexual harassment at her Tokyo office and is hounded by her mother to get a husband before she gets too old. One day a woman of the same age moves into the apartment next door and soon the sounds of her neighbour's sexual activity begin to filter through their wall. Men and women visit the woman's room at all hours of the night but the girl is both repulsed and fascinated by her new neighbor's brazen sexuality. One night the girl decides to venture into the woman's unlocked room. What she finds is beyond anything she could have imagined.
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