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NYAFF 2022 Review: Eiji Uchida’s OFFBEAT COPS, Practice, Practice, Practice!

Offbeat Cops is an original story written and directed by Eiji Uchida for his fourteenth film to date. It stars Hiroshi Abe as Tsukasa Naruse, a divorcee and hard-boiled detective on the verge of catching the elusive leader of a phishing ring that targets elderly people, violently invades them at home and robs them of any money or personal belongings before leaving their victims for dead. When the film starts, he’s so close to getting his man that he can taste it, and will go to just about any lengths necessary to catch the culprit, even if it means abusing his authority with suspects. His maverick style of investigation, however, has also cost him his image as the three decades he’s spent being a detective has transformed him into an incorrigible colleague at the station, shoving his weight around and being insubordinate towards his seniors, intolerant of meetings and by-the-book […]

TOKYO TRIBE Gets A U.S. Trailer For Its October Theatrical Release!

Lee B. Golden III

Director Sono Sion broke the mold with last year’s successful run of the hit action hip hop musical, Tokyo Tribe. Despite a few visible differences between the film and manga author Santa Inoue’s 1997-2005 publication on which the film is based, the fervor has grown immensely with key performances channeled by debut actor and hip-hop artist Young Dais, and actors Suzuki Ryohei, Seino Nana, Sometani Shota and Takeuchi Riki to name a few on top of the action and visual spectacle that ensued. This, coupled with Inoue’s absolute involvement in a forthcoming television series adaptation with producer Patrick S. Cunningham and director Daryl Wharton-Rigby as reported by THR back in May, pretty much solidifies just how big a deal this film has been, and it’s a good thing. Incidentally and for reasons painstakingly unknown, it’s also the kind of film that takes forever to reach a certain audience in territories […]

NOWHERE GIRL: Watch Seino Nana's Trigger Go Off In The Latest Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Tokyo Tribe, Torakage and Danger Dolls co-star, actress Seino Nana is on a roll this year as her latest, Nowhere Girl, is currently making the film festival rounds having already premiered for this year’s installment of the New York Asian Film Festival. Several teasers are also circulating but you can certainly catch a full trailer available below ahead of the film’s Japan release on July 25, and much to the credit of action fans, Seino’s got all the right moves to delight viewers in a role for a story that further cements female action movie stardom. via NYAFF: Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii’s latest live-action film “Tokyo Mukokuseki Shoujo” centers on Ai (Nana Seino, the all-around kicker and piece of smoking hotness from Tokyo Tribe), a student at an all-girls’ art high school. Her natural talent for art provokes the fury and envy of both the adults around […]

DANGER DOLLS Gets A Brand New Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Following international sales holder Birch Tree Films’s announcement back in May, a full length trailer for director Shûsuke Kaneko‘s sexy action fantasy flick, Danger Dolls. The film has since made some noise throughout the summer film festival circuit and will now grant other Asian cinema fans a viewing when it releases in Japan on September 27, 2014. SYNOPSIS: Danger Dolls follows a quartet of cute idol singers who moonlight as butt-kicking action heroines. When extraterrestrial invaders threaten the safety of the Earth after an earthquake unleashes them from an alternate dimension, the Danger Dolls become humanity’s only hope for survival. The team infiltrates the evil cult behind the invasion and must use their swords and their fists to smash the invading army. Starring popular karate heroine Rina Takeda (High Kick Girl, Dead Sushi) and new discovery Nana Seino (star of Sion Sono’s upcoming Tokyo Tribe), the film also features Rumi […]

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[UPDATED] Japanese Action Sci-Fi Flick, DANGER DOLLS Lines Up New Co-Partnership For Birch Tree Films

Lee B. Golden III

From L to R: Actresses Kayano, Rumi Hanai, Rina Takeda and Nana Seino lead the all female fighting quartet in Shusuke Kaneko’s DANGER DOLLS One can never get enough action cinema nowadays, as lately there have been some titles announced around the internet that have come and gone over the past several years. So it’s always a lovely thing to hear when a new film coming to endulge the fanbase, especially for fans of the butt-kicking female variety with ‘High Kick’ matriarch and Sang Pemberani co-star, actress Rina Takeda, and leading lady of Sono Sion’s upcoming live action manga thriller, Tokyo Tribe, actress Nana Seino. Attendees at this year’s Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival on March 1 got a first hand look at director Shusuke Kaneko‘s latest all-girl action adventure, Danger Dolls (then known as Shôjo wa isekai de tatakatta). The film has since been acquired by International sales agent, […]

The New Teaser For TOKYO TRIBE Brings An Orchestra Of Chaos!

Lee B. Golden III

Why Don’t You Play In Hell director Sono Sion is back in the fray this week ahead of the upcoming release of his latest beat-em-up gangster flick, Tokyo Tribe, based on manga author Santa Inoue’s 1993 publication and subsequent serial anime. Following the first promotional still released several days ago, we now get to see some of the brutal live-action chaos set to dazzle audiences in the form of a glorious new teaser with hip hop artist Young Dais leading in his big screen debut, along with Ryuta Sato, Nana Seino, Ryohei Suzuki, Shoko Nakagawa and Riki Takeuchi. Tokyo Tribe releases in Japan on August 30. SYNOPSIS: Set sometime in the future, five years have passed since the Shibuya riots. There are now several tribes that exists in Tokyo. Boys makeup tribes and they occupy areas under their influence. Kai Deguchi is a member of the tribe Musashino Saru led […]

Young Dais Leads The Pack In A New Promo Pic For TOKYO TRIBE

Lee B. Golden III

Japanese news sites have begun circulating the now-viral first promotional still for the upcoming live-action manga adaptation, Toyko Tribe. Directed by Why Don’t You Play In Hell helmer Sono Sion, the new futuristic urban action gangster thriller is based on manga author Santa Inoue’s 1993 publication and subsquent TV series, with the first photo arriving just a little over a year after the film was announced last Spring prior to a casting call through YouTube. You can check it out below: SYNOPSIS: Set sometime in the future, five years have passed since the Shibuya riots. There are now several tribes that exists in Tokyo. Boys makeup tribes and they occupy areas under their influence. Kai Deguchi is a member of the tribe Musashino Saru led by Tera. One day, a member of Musashino Saru is killed by rival tribe Bukuro Wu-RONZ led by Mera. Kai and Mera are former best […]