OLD SCHOOL: Headbutts And Fisticuffs In The Trailer For Kotaro Ikawa’s Whodunit Action Crime Black Comedy
A Family and Sekigahara actor Yukiya Kitamura is taking the reins and beating the streets as a downtrodden detective mitigating his hodgepodge neighborhood of Yakuza and Chinese crime factions in Kotaro Ikawa’s new film, Old School. Futoshi Nakano and Kida Norio penned the script for the pic, marking Ikawa’s return to the helm since debuting in 2006 with Lost In Tokyo, which earned him the Audience Award at the first-ever CinDi 2007 Film Festival in Seoul. Shinjiro is a wandering detective whose hobbies are gambling and drinking. Because he is naively honest and he had bad mouth, he is always arguing or having conflicts with his clients, so now he has no job or money. His office is a rented warehouse in a coffee shop run by Rin. However, Shinjiro finds it interesting to live in a town with a mix of cultures, races, old Japanese gangs and new Chinese […]