LION-GIRL Review: Come For The Spills, Thrills And Gratuity, Stay Because Kurando Mitsutake Is Worth It
Lion-Girl is releasing on Digital and on special Blu Ray and DVD beginning November 7 from Cleopatra Entertainment.
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Kurando Mitsutake’s LION-GIRL Dons New Sales Art!
New sales art is making the rounds for Lion-Girl, Kurando Mitsutake’s newest audacious cinematic team-up with mangaka Go Nagai starring Tori Griffith in the title role. It’ll be a ways until we hear any more on its forthcoming releases in the U.K. and U.S. from Cleopatra, but the film did just have a cast and crew screening of the film in Hollywood last week which ought to help stir the fandom a little more… And that’s after getting a NSFW trailer that stirred things plenty back in March ahead of its Australia screening.
LION-GIRL: Kurando Mitsutake’s Latest Gets Her Day In Australia Next Month!
Cinephiles planning on attending events at this year’s third Fantastic Film Festival Australia can expect some interesting perks while present. The feature line-up is another speed and especially for anyone waiting to see what Karate Kill and Maniac Driver director Kurando Mitsutake has been up to as of late, for which we can now take a gander at new stills from post-apocalyptic thriller, Lion-Girl, featuring Tori Griffiths in the lead role.
MANIAC DRIVER Pulls Up With A Hypnotic, Vivid And Violent Trailer For Kurando Mitsutake’s Latest
I’m supposed to be on medical leave from the website, but not everyone in Team FCS has come to acquaint themselves as much with Gun Woman and Karate Kill director Kurando Mitsutake’s work as I have in the last five years just about. Alas, this is me taking one for the team to help present the official trailer for Mitsutake’s Giallo-inspired Japanese horror, Maniac Driver.
MANIAC DRIVER Pulls Up With Fierce Premiere Poster Art For Kurando Mitsutake’s First-Ever Japanese Giallo Horror
The 31st annual Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival kicks off its five-day event on September 16, and Karate Kill and Gun Woman helmer Kurando Mitsutake is totally here for it all, indicating as much with the first official poster for his new horror, Maniac Driver. There aren’t any story details, but all we need to know is that Mitsutake is looking to make this the first-ever foray into the Japanese-Giallo genre, which is exactly the kind of energy Mitsutake appears to be matching.
TAKING THE WHEEL: A Word With Filmmaker Kurando Mitsutake
Japanese cinema is one of the most adoring caveats of sharing film discussions, and director Kurando Mitsutake is a highly welcome subject matter in that regard.
Make Way For Kurando Mitsutake’s MANIAC DRIVER
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LION-GIRL Roars In The U.S. And U.K. From Cleopatra Later This Year!
If you’re new to director Kurando Mitsutake, I recommend to warming up with some of his previous works. The official trailer for Lion-Girl starring Tori Griffith was finally revealed back in March for the dystopian action sci-fi co-created in association Toei Video and legendary manga artist Go Nagai, and it delivers in full, exploitively festive genre fashion as per what Mitsutake is known for with previous films like Gun Woman and Karate Kill and the more recent Giallo-inspired Maniac Driver.
Year Nine…
I gotta say… this year-end piece has been pretty hard to ponder what with all the overthinking I’ve done. Keeping it simple was just as difficult for an approach to this thing, further elongating the lack of inspiration that I’ve increasingly felt in the last four months or so. That’s writers’ bloc for you. It’s a real bitch, and indeed, many things have factored into it, and it’s all still a challenge to take in.
EVIL DEAD TRAP Lures You Into The Bowels Of Hell This Month From Unearthed Classics
Director Toshiharu Ikeda chisled quite the filmography for himself over the years and as of this month, fans will once again get to revisit his 1988 slasher, Evil Dead Trap, on August 24. The film is a nimble hit with fans of giallo-style horror and gore and I take it that our own Vance Ang might jump in on this with some opinions if he has any interest.
THE HIT LIST: April 20, 2020
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TUNGUSKA BUTTERFLY: ‘Gun Woman’ Star Asami Throws Down One Last Time In The Official Trailer
My first exposure to actress and idol, Asami, was her performance years ago as a vengeful mechanic teaming up with Minase Yashiro’s mech-infused one-armed avenger in Noboru Iguchi’s The Machine Girl; the heydays of Tokyo Shock and Fever Dreams were some of the best ever.
IRON GIRL: FINAL WARS – Don’t Miss The Latest Trailer For Kirara Asuka’s Cult Sci-Fi Action Threequel
By 2014’s Iron Girl: Ultimate Weapon, it was already clear that a third was imminent featuring pan-Asian adult star, actress Kirara Asuka back at the forefront of this particular cult sci-fi fan favorite. Kenichi Fujiwara returns to the director’s chair for Iron Girl: Final Wars as does screenwriter Yasutoshi Murakawa who penned Fujiwara’s follow-up to Masatoshi Nagamine’s 2012 film. And there’s isn’t much of a synopsis available, save for this translation I caught on YouTube:
KICKIN’ IT ‘KORYU’: An Interview With KARATE KILL Star, Actor And Martial Artist, Hayate
Nowadays I’m certain my old sensei is still somewhere in my neck of the woods doing what he does, as maybe a few of my old classmates. Moreover, Karate is still something I can relate to as a sport, and even as a watchable style in action cinema; Two of the most fun examples of this, aside from the Karate Kid trilogy, obviously, are several titles that took up a great portion of my time since I began immersing myself in Asian cinema a bit more around 2002: Yang Yun-Ho’s Fighter In The Wind, and Nagasaki Shunichi’s 2007 cult hit, Kuro Obi.
Review: KARATE KILL Earns A Black Belt in Boring Filmmakimg
The problem is that there’s no mood to make in this film with its simple plot nor at any time does the protagonist feel that time was of the essense. It showed more of Kenji silently walking from destination to another to serve as the film’s only idea of scene transition. Seriously, there was more walking than fighting in this film. That’s another sign of lazy filmmaking.
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