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12.12: THE DAY Teases A Day Of Infamy In The First Teaser For Kim Sung-Su’s New Thriller

My early Asian cinema fandom wasn’t without my enjoyment of director Kim Sung-su’s work, so it’s great to see him still at the helm. His latest is titled 12.12: The Day (f.k.a. Spring of Seoul) and rejoins him with his Asura: The City Of Madness leading men Hwang Jung-min and his Beat star Jung Woo-sung, along with Cheer Up, Mr. Lee and Emergency Declaration actor Park Hae-joon. On December 1979, Seoul had been enduring a harsh winterbefore the upcoming spring. After the assassination of President Park, martial law has been declared. A coup d’état bursts out by Defense Security Commander CHUN Doo-gwang (HWANG Jung-min) and a private band of officers following him. Capital Defense Commander LEE Tae-shin (JUNG Woo-sung), an obstinate soldier who believes the military should not take political actions, fights against CHUN Doo-gwang to stop him. The conflict between the two grows while military leaders are holding their […]

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Animated FIST OF THE NORTH STAR Reboot In Development From WB Japan

Fist Of The North Star is getting an animated reboot as announced by Warner Bros. Japan in time for the original manga’s 40th anniversary. The studio is says it will use the latest animation technology combined with an all-new cast and creators on the project according to the company’s press release. In 199x, world was engulfed in the blaze of nuclear war. With the Ocean drying up and Earth torn asunder, all life seems to be lost but humans survived stubbornly. However, what dominated the post-apocalyptic world was a seer violence. The remaining humanity was split in two groups: those who kill and take whatever they can and those who are exploited. When all hope seemed lost for the weak, a man in ragged cloth appears. He is Kenshiro, the rightful successor of the Hokuto Shinken martial arts with seven studs-like scars in a shape of the Big Dipper. His […]

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THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY Teases A Fully-Loaded Showdown In The First Poster

After a bevy of shorts and music videos to get started, Francis Galluppi is finally ready to make headway beginning with his feature debut, The Last Stop In Yuma County. The first poster is currently making the rounds as the film looks toward its upcoming premiere at the 18th edition of Fantastic Fest this month. When a traveling knife salesman is forced to wait for fuel at an isolated rest stop, violence erupts around him when two bank robbers arrive during their getaway from a big heist. Galluppi also penned the film and serves as producer along with Atif Malik, and Matt O’Neill. The cast includes Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Nicholas Logan, Faizon Love, Michel Abbott Jr., and Alex Essoe. Per Fantastic Fest programmer Lori Donnelly: Equal parts western and heist thriller, writer/director Francis Galluppi’s debut feature harnesses the energy of the stripped-down action B-movies of the 1970s […]

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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. In the year 20XX, mysterious meteors bombard the Earth and usher in an age of horrific beasts known as ‘ANOROC’, hunting and killing humans for their life force. The Earth has one last defender against them; her name is ‘LION-GIRL’. Also starring are Damain Toofek Raven, Joey Iwanaga and Derek Mears. Check out the poster below, and […]

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FIGHTER Flies Online With A New Motion Poster For Siddharth Anand’s Indian Air Force Actioner

Viacom18 Studios and Marflix have announced Fighter, a new Indian air force military action adventure rejoining Bang Bang! and War duo, actor Hrithik Roshan and director Siddharth Anand. The first official motion poster teaser is now running online with production signaling a January 25 release next year on the eve of India’s 75th Republic Day. Shamsher Pathania, an aspiring young man, fulfills his lifelong dream of joining the Indian Air Force. As he faces rigorous personal challenges, Shamsher must rise above his own limitations to be a true hero of the Indian Armed Forces. Fighter also reunites Anand with Pathaan leading lady Deepika Padukone who will next be seen in the Shah Rukh Khan-led Jawan and in the Hindi/Telugu Prahbas starrer, Kalki 2898 A.D., and also stars Anil Kapoor whose next appearance will be later this year in Animal starring Ranbir Kapoor. Anand has been making a killing in the […]

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MAD CATS Sets Japan Release With New Poster And Trailer

The newest official poster and trailer assets are out for Mad Cats, the latest from writer/director Reiki Tsuno and starring Sho Mineo and debut actress and rising action talent, Ayane. The film is currently making the international festival rounds following its world premiere at Slamdance earlier this year and is poised for a Japan release in September. Mineo stars as Taka, a shiftless young man with no job and living in a trailer park. After receiving a mysterious package alerting him of the likely location of his long missing brother, Mune, Taka sets off on a quest to that finds him taking on a pack of vengeful humanoid monster cats with the help of a homeless man haphazardly swept into the affray, and an edgy, mysterious young girl with the arsenal of a small army, and martial arts skills to match. Yuya Matsuura and So Yamanaka also star. The film […]

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EXPEND4BLES Assemble In The New Official Poster

The campaign continues as director Scott Waugh’s September 22 release of Expend4bles now dons an official poster from Lionsgate. The film stars Jason Statham, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Randy Couture, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran with Andy Garcia and Sylvester Stallone, with a script by Kurt Wimmer, Tad Daggerhart and Max Adams. Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world’s last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give “new blood” a whole new meaning. Check out the digital art above and standalone one sheet below.

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KE AN DANH: Don’t Miss The First Official Trailer For Dan Trong Tran’s New August Action Comedy

I honestly thought this trailer would come sooner, but it’s here now at least. Indeed it’s all ado with the current campaign for Ke An Danh, the new film reuniting actor Kieu Minh Tuan and director Dan Trong Tran following their previous action comedy romp, Bad Blood. The peculiar part here is that Ke An Danh is running with an English title that also reads as Bad Blood, which is a bit confusing, and I don’t quite know how the team will work this bit out. At any rate, previous character poster art can be found here, and while don’t have much in the way of English, Ke An Danh now has an official, English-subbed trailer which you can view below along with a new official poster just beneath. The film also stars Mac Van Khoa, Van Trang, Quoc Troung, and Furie actress Cat Vy, and features action sequences by […]

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Haruka Ayase Pops Off In The First Teaser Trailer For REVOLVER LILY

Toei spent a good many months running a campaign of behind-the-scenes reels to help palpitate audiences awaiting director Isao Yukisada’s latest, Revolver Lily. To that end, and with an official release date in Japan for August 11 now in place, the official trailer is finally here. 1924, Yuri, a former competent spy who murdered 57 people in the past is working as a madam of a small brothel. There she encounters a boy who holds a key to find missing cash of the Imperial Japanese Army. Now, 1000 soldiers are after them; can they possibly survive six days of this deadly warfare? Revolver Lily is based on Kyo Naguara’s Kodansha Bunko publication, and is produced by Toei’s Muneyuki Kii and Daisuke Takahashi. The film stars Haruka Ayase who recently appeared opposite Takuya Kimura in Keishi Otomo’s feudal epic, The Legend And Butterfly. She is joined by young actor Jinsei Hamura […]

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FEAR THE NIGHT Delivers A Fierce New Poster For The Maggie Q Action Thriller

The official trailer was just revealed for writer and director Neil LaBute’s new contained home invasion thriller, Fear The Night. Quiver Distribution is finally delivering on the requisite poster art featuring none other than a fierce-looking Maggie Q which you can view below. In the film, Q plays an ex-soldier fighting her addictions and personal scars. Adding to her already full plate are a swarm of intruders as she decides to take matters in her own hands on the night she attends a bachelorette party with several other friends. Fear The Night also stars Kat Foster, Travis Hammer, and Gia Crovatin, and opens in theaters, on digital and on-Demand beginning July 21. View the poster below and catch the trailer here.

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UNOFFICIAL OPERATION: Hitch A Ride In New Posters And Stills For The Latest South Korean Political Thriller

A title change remains in order for Kim Sung-hoon’s newest film starring Ha Jung-woo and Ju Ji-hoon. For this, we turn to the official poster art treatments, as well as a batch of stills for Unofficial Operation, which opens in South Korean cinemas on August 2 from Showbox. Ha plays a diplomat thrust into the turmoil of the war-torn streets of 1986 Beirut when he’s assigned to rescue another diplomat who was kidnapped and taken hostage two years earlier. Ju plays a local taxi driver and the other half of the oddball pairing that must now work together if they’re to survive Beirut and complete the mission. Peep the pictorials in the mosaic below!

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Kieu Minh Tuan Takes Flight In New Character Posters For KE AN DANH

Murmurs out of Vietnam have now spawned some cool new poster art for the latest reteaming of Bad Blood star Kieu Minh Tuan and director Dan Trong Tran. There’s no English title yet but family action adventure Ke An Danh translates to variations like “The Hidden Man” or “Anonymous” so do with that what you will. Tuan reportedly spent six months physically preparing for the role of a gangster whose post-amnesic life as an ordinary man now finds him fighting to protect his new wife and stepdaughter. The cast also lists local talents like Mac Van Khoa and Quoc Truong, and features action sequences by Samuel Kefi Abrikh (Furie, Furies, The Princess) and his team at AC Stunts Prod. The film opens August 25. Check out the posters below!

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KITTY THE KILLER: Lee Thongkam’s NYAFF 2023 Selectee Gets An Official Trailer For The New Thai Actioner

Thai action is coming to local cinemas with next week’s release of assassin thriller, Kitty The Killer from director Lee Thongkam. The official trailer arrived last month as well following its teaser while the film’s movement is now getting bolstered by some serious attention with a premiere at this year’s New York Asian Film Festival. I suppose a heads-up is in order with the pending official line-up. Yes? Yes. Dina, a girl trained to become an assassin, works with Keng (‘The Gray Fox Guardian’), but one day, Keng is betrayed by his organisation. Keng meets Charlie, an ordinary office worker and develops a special connection with him. Before dying, Keng makes Charlie the new ‘Gray Fox Guardian.’ Charlie’s job is to keep Dina safe from the organisation. The story of the Assassin’s War begins… The official trailer below doles out a wee bit more with animated sequences and graphic novel-style […]

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Trailer: Don’t Steal Kuchisake-Onna’s Stuff, Or Prepare To Meet Your Maker!

Trailer: Don’t Steal Kuchisake-Onna’s Stuff, Or Prepare To Meet Your Maker!

Back to scare the living Bajesus out of anyone looking for a scare at the movies is Phone Of The Dead director Yu Nakamoto. His latest teams him up this time with Sushi Typhoon vet and notable film producer Yoshinori Chiba whose Extreme label has a new action horror slated for July 7. The movie doesn’t have an English title as of yet but all the same though, it’s got a story that aims to thrill. This one centers on “First Love: Hatsukoi” actor Taisei Kido in his feature film debut about a high schooler and his friends who steal mopeds and sell them for quick cash. Eventually he finds himself stealing the wrong moped when they are soon hunted down by a grostesque-looking woman armed with a blade and superhuman abilities… Yikes! The trailer below definitely dives into the thick of it. Also starring are Gai Ueno and Reina […]

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EXPEND4BLES: Sly, Jaa, Iko, 50, Stath, Fox, Dolph And More Slay In The First Trailer!

Barring what awaits for director Scott Waugh’s Chan/Cena experiment in Hidden Strike, it’s what comes next that will undoubtedly be an inviting feat for Lionsgate following its brimming success with John Wick: Chapter 4. Indeed, it’s the return once again of Sly and co. for Expend4bles, and with that exact spelling and tagline as indicated at last year’s CinemaCon. A new generation of stars join the world’s top action stars for an adrenaline-fueled adventure in Expend4bles. Reuniting as the team of elite mercenaries, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Sylvester Stallone are joined for the first time by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran, and Andy Garcia.  Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world’s last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other […]

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LUMBERJACK THE MONSTER: Kazuya Kamenashi Has An Axe To Grind With An Axe Murderer In The First Teaser For Takashi Miike’s Latest!

Japan auteur Takashi Miike has already taken a hold on a few headlines this week re: The Great Yokai War: Guardians. Don’t count him out just yet however as it’s only the middle of the week, because Miike is on track to get some extra attention with the teaser now running for Lumberjack The Monster, opening locally in theaters on December 1 from Warner Bros. Japan. Lumberjack The Monster is based on Mayusuke Kurai’s Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Award-winning novel published by Takarajimasha. The film features Kazuya Kamenashi who plays a psychopathic hotshot lawyer who also happens to be a cold-blooded murderer. Everything changes when he crosses paths with an axe-wielding serial killer donning a monstrous mask with a penchant for severing heads open and scooping out the brains of his victims. In short, there’s gonna be some killer-versus-killer type shit in Miike’s latest work, and I reckon anyone who […]

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KTV: KILLING TIME VIOLENTLY Gets Teaser Art For The Latest From ‘Jailbreak’ Director

Director Jimmy Henderson chose some time to kill on Wednesday to share the first official poster art for KTV: Killing Time Violently. The new movie reteams him with much of his Jailbreak and Hanuman crew, including actor and martial artist Dara Our who stars in the film from a script penned by Henderson and co-writer Kai Miller As reported late last year, KTV: Killing Time Violently stars Our in the role of Mak, an estranged father who must use his skills as a reformed bar-brawler to find a way out and make it home in time for his son’s birthday when he gets caught up in a gang raid at a local club on his first day on the job. Rounding out the cast are Japan-based Cambodian model Hinano Kurosaki, along with comedian duo Pek Mi and Neay Krouch, and legendary Cambodian rapper, DJ Sdey. Henderson is also producing the […]

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LAYERS OF LIES Kicks Out New Poster Art During Festivals

TACFEST had its inaugural festivities over the weekend in Spain celebrating the action genre at large. Par for the course was the world’s first Finnish-Iranian action adventure thriller, Layers Of Lies, starring Ramin Sohrab whose debut feature is currently set for further screenings beginning June 2 in Finland which you can learn more about here. Leading man Sohrab also takes the helm for his latest outing, garnering ceremony at previous festival screenings this year around Los Angeles, as well as Canada, Finland and Belgium. That kind of marketing has also garnered some brand new artwork which I’m happy to share below, while we await for more news on the film’s movement through commercial distribution. The artwork comes courtesy of Sohrab who sent us the key art after winning Best Director and Best Actor at TACFEST, to which we take a toast to Sohrab on these victories, and with best wishes […]

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TYRANT: Details On New Action Thriller From ‘The Witch’ And ‘The Childe’ Director

At this point all I really want is my threequel to The Witch franchise, and as long as Park Hoon-jung is back for a third time to direct it, I’ve got no complaints. In the meantime, I’m perfectly fine with another gritty, modern actioner out of South Korea from the celebrated Night In Paradise director who is now under way with Tyrant, as Acemaker Movieworks handles international sales. A covert program called ‘The Tyrant Project’ that was carried out in Korea is uncovered by the US intelligence agency, which orders the Korean counterpart to immediately shut down. The project is dismantled and is about to be handed over to the US but an accident takes place during the handoff. Operation staff Ja-kyung and Mo-yong successfully hijack the program sample as per Director Choi’s order. US intelligence agent Paul finds out about the accident and decides to retrieve the sample himself. […]

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DEVARA Signals A Godlike NTR Jr. In New Key Art

“When courage turns into a disease… fear is the only cure.” That’s the tagline for Devara (meaning God or Godlike), the newest Telugu film from director Koratala Siva. The film stars NTR Jr.’s in his thirtieth movie after conquering the world in the past year alongside leading man Ram Charan in S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR. Plot and story details are known only to the production while Variety‘s Naman Ramachandran describes the project as “a revenge drama”. The film opens in theaters next year and also stars Janhvi Kapoor (“Mili”) and Saif Ali Khan (“Vikram Vedha”) in pivotal roles Check out the poster below and mark the date!

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